" I am Raskolnikov. I am K. I am Humbert and Lolita. I am you. If you read these pages and think I’m the way I am because I lived through a civil war, you can’t feel my pain. If you believe you’re not like me because one woman, and only one, Hannah, chose to be my friend, then you’re unable to empathize. Like the bullet, I too stray. Forgive me. "

― Rabih Alameddine , An Unnecessary Woman