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This book is so sad 🥲

"كان لا بدّ أن تعيش في العتمة طويلًا حتى يفاجئك النور."

"In every man’s memories there are such things as he will reveal not to everyone, but perhaps only to friends. There are also such as he will reveal not even to friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. Then, finally, there are such as a man is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man will have accumulated quite a few things of this sort."

"I’ve always considered myself more intelligent than everyone around me, and, would you believe, have even felt slightly ashamed of it. At least I’ve somehow averted my eyes all my life, and never could look people straight in the face."

He's just like me fr

"[Y]ou’re shooting at anything that moves—and also at what isn’t moving,
crazy amounts. . . . [I]t also becomes a bit like a computer game, totally cool
and real."

Just one of many IDF testimonies from Operation Protective Edge (2014).

Remi's reunion with Mother Barberin was so touching :')

My fault for thinking things were finally getting better

"You don't understand," he said, with a pitiful smile. "When one is very ill, they take care of you or they let you die. If they let me die it will be all over, I shan't be hungry any more, and there'll be no more beatings. And they do say that when we die we go up and live with God. Then, if I'm up there, I can look down on Mamma and Christina, and I can ask God not to let my little sister be unhappy."

😞

Why is this story so tragic :(

"Mazen was taken out the next day and tortured the same way. He lost all his nails. On the fourth day he woke in a room under the stairs. He was on top of a motionless body. It was a dead person. Mazen wanted to scream but it seemed like he had lost his voice."

Ya Allah...