Karama Masmoudi

“أجل, اليوم, حتى الموت نفسه يبدو لي ملطخاً مشوهاً.”
― Amin Maalouf, التائهون

“فالدرع يحمي بقدر ما ينوء بوطأته على الكاهل، وليس بوسعنا التخلص منه بدون أن نتعرى.”
― Amin Maalouf, التائهون

“You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“I don't know. I've come to tell you what I did.' Yes, that was the reason of his visit. It was the closing of a book that would never be read again, and better close such a book than leave it lying about to get dirtied. The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers. He owed it to Alec also. He could suffer no mixing of the old with the new. All compromise was perilous, because furtive, and, having finished his confession, he must disappear from the world that had brought him up.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice