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“ Even as a boy i could see what was beautiful in the world: I was destined not to stay a slave”

“The door is a metaphor we use so we can pretend there's something solid to crouch behind. But there isn't. We are the solid. The door, dear Daughter, is you and me and all the people reading this who relate to these words. It's built by our strength and our courage, our wisdom and our resolve, our suffering and our triumph. The people who harmed us can only come inside if and when we allow them to.“

“ There is a transformative power in seeing the familiar from a new , more distant perspective “

“It will never be okay that our mothers are dead”

“ Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another “

“Sometimes we can wound each other in ways we don’t intend “

“Take nothing for granted” “ unless you want to feel its loss”

I learned that i am the “ poor sport” person 🫢

“ما أسوأ ان يكون الواحد غير كاف وحده ، ان يبذل نفسه بغية ملاقاتها عند الآخرين.ثم ينتهي به الحال وحيدًا ، دون نفسه ودون الآخرين "

“تفقد الرغبات قيمتها حين نلح في طلبها، حين نطلبها بالأساس ، فتجيء منقوصة باهتة ، وقد كانت اقصى أمانينا "

“تحب الحياة ان تلعب معنا هذه اللعبة تمنحنا ما نريده ولكن ممن لا نريده ،لتعفي نفسها من تهمة حرماننا دون أن تعطينا شيئًا رغم ذلك "

"في تلك السن يتزوج المرء وينجب طفله الأول ويختار مهنته. ثم يعرف ويفهم الكثير من الأشياء لكن يكون تأخر كثيراً، لأن الحياة برمتها تكون قد تقررت في فترة لا يعرف عنها شيئاً"

"أولئك الذين تتبدى لهم خيبة حياتهم ينطلقون لاصطياد المذنبين"

"You see, Islam is the only religion that gives both husband and wife a true understanding of what love is. The Western “love” concept, you take it apart, it really is lust. But love transcends just the physical. Love is disposition, behaviour, attitude, thoughts, likes, dislikes - these things make a beautiful woman, a beautiful wife. This is the beauty that never fades."

"if you want something you better make some noise"

"She and Augustine had been trapped in a despair that had paralysed their ability to snap out of it, devastated by the weight of a rejection that had not been part of their dreams of migration"

💔

"privilege is about context and circumstances"

I liked yazz she's fun and very intellectual for the girl in her age. Also we both Diab's fans 😅

"she didn’t tell them she’d taken her father for granted and carried her blinkered, self-righteous perspective of him from childhood through to his death, when in fact he’d done nothing wrong except fail to live up to her feminist expectations of him"

This touches my heart :(