Khadija Maqableh

“your relationship with air—that’s key. You can’t break up with air.
You’re kind of stuck together. Only slightly less crucial is water. And then food.
You can’t be dropping food to hang with someone else. You need to strike up an agreement with it.”
― Ned Vizzini

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― William Saroyan

“من در دو مکان به دنیا نیامدم، اما توان آن را دارم در بیش از یک مکان بمیرم. همچنین توان آن دارم در هر شعری زاده شوم و بمیرم. این همان آزادی من است، پس چرا باید مکان جغرافیایی تولدم در تضاد با این آزادی باشد؟”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt