Hadeer

“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“مهووسة أنا بالأماكن ، و بي اشتياق لمساحة تقبلنا كما نحن .. في لحظات الفرح و اليأس و الضعف و القوة .. و اليقين و الضياع .. مساحة تشبهنا على اختلافاتنا .. واسعة كقلبي و دافئة كحضنك..”
― غادة محمد محمود, أما هذه.. فرقصتي أنا