Heba Labib

“كيف يكون الشيء أمامك ولاتراه, كيف تتحول إلى اعمى كما لو انك لا تملك من هذا العالم الواسع غير زوايا البيت وبواباته التي تغلقها اخر الليل,خائفا ان تفقد هذه الزوايا!! أم خائفا من دخول العالم فجأة إلى داخل بيتك ؟”
― إبراهيم نصر الله, زمن الخيول البيضاء

“Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
― Sophocles

“The Standover Man. all my life, I've been scared of men standing over me. I suppose my first standover man was my father, but he vanished before I could remember him. For some reason when I was a boy, I liked to fight. a lot of the time, I lost. Another boy, sometimes with blood falling from his nose, would be standing over me. Many years later, I needed to hide. I tried not to sleep because I as afraid of who might be there when I woke up. But I was lucky. It was always my friend.When I was hiding. I dreamed of a certain man. The hardest was when I traveled to find him. Out of sheer luck and many footsteps, I made it. I slept there for a long time. Three days, they told me...and what did I find when I woke up? Not a man, but someone else standing over me. As time passed by the girl and I realized we had things in common. But there is one strange thing. The girl says I look like something else. Now I live in a basement. Bad dreams still live in my sleep. One night, after my usual nightmare, a shadow stood above me. She said, "Tell me what you dream of." So I did. In return, she explained what her own dreams were made of. Now I think we are friends, this girl and me. It was she who gave me a gift - to me. It makes me understand that the best standover man I've ever known is not a man at all...”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities,” said Zen monk Shunryu Suzuki. “In the expert’s mind, there are few.”
― Austin Kleon, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered