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41 " She needs to leave him alone when he wants to be left alone. But then, do they meet in order for him to be left alone? Do they take trains and aeroplanesand drive for hours so that he should be left alone? If what he wants is to be left alone, then why do they meet at all? Everybody worries so about separation, but the problem is not the separations; it is how they are when they're together. "
― Ahdaf Soueif
42 " النهر حبل نجاة ملقي عبر الصحراء,والقري والمدن تتشبث به في حشد تنظر وراء ظهرها الي الصحراء الماثلة دوما خلفها,يسترضونها في النهاية بايداع موتاهم في بطنها. "
― Ahdaf Soueif , The Map of Love
43 " عندئذ فقط أدركت كيف يغمرك الشوق إلى مكان فلا تملك إلا أن تعود وتلتقط من المدينة أجزاء هنا وهناك لتشكل منها المكان الذي عرفته يوم ما. ولكن ما العمل إذا استحالت العودة؟ "
44 " I'm taken over by this trunk. I'm practically living inside it. When I read the journals I feel as if I'm there, a hundred years ago. I'm putting together the whole picture and I know everything that happened and wasn't written down - Amal, p. 133 "
45 " كفاح لا ينقدم إلا قيد انملة،و العالم من حولنا يهدر كالإعصار "
46 " Can love grow infinitely? each day I feel my love for him push its roots into my soul. I rest in his arms, so close that I can feel his heartbeat as though it were my own,and I wonder that just four short months ago I did not even know him. "
47 " Wonder 'do we - by the same words - mean the same things? "
48 " He loves her. Circumstances and considerations - what are those? The whole world recedes and there is room for only one thought: he loves her. She had not misunderstood him. She is not an eccentric and a burden. He has been thinking of her as she has of him. Above her bed the broad fins whirl gently; the night will pass and the morning will come and he loves her. "
49 " It's good that I should have to come some way to meet you. "
50 " and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear. "
51 " So at the heart of all things is the germ of their overthrow; the closer you are to the heart, the closer to the reversal. Nowhere to go but down. You reach the core and then you're blown away-- "
52 " There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a man who stands lost in admiration at the gun that is raised to shoot him. "
53 " Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting. "
54 " If we could shrink the Earth's population to a village of 100 people, with all existing human ratios staying the same, it would look like this: There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Americas and 8 Africans. 80 would live in substandard housing. 70 would be unable to read. 50 would suffer from malnutrition. 50 per cent of the entire world's wealth would be in the hands of only 6 people. And all 6 would be citizens of the United States. "
55 " How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them. "
― Ahdaf Soueif , In the Eye of the Sun
56 " Put football instead of cricket and she could have been me. She could have been Arwa, or Deena or any of the girls I grew up with here in Cairo in the Sixties. What difference do a hundred years — or a continent — make? "
57 " كنت سأبقى في نطاق العالم الذي أعرفه، فأرى الأشياء من خلال عيون زملائي في الرحلة، و يتشغل عقلي بمقاومة انطباعاتهم ن فيعجز عن تكوبن فكرة تخصني "
58 " The air is dry and light and its effect on the mind is similar to that of a glass of Champagne before dinner. "
59 " I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying "This, too, shall pass," For a time we do not even want it to pass. We hold on to grief, fearing that its lifting will be the final betrayal. "
60 " She wanted nothing to come between her and the rain and the sky. "
― Ahdaf Soueif , Aisha