Mohammed El-sayed

“سِرنا جنبًا إلى جنب، اخترقنا القبو إلى الميدان، وهمس جعفر: لتمتلئ الحياة بالجنون
المقدَّس حتى النفَس الأخير”
― نجيب محفوظ, قلب الليل

“I sent one boy to the gaschamber at Huntsville. One and only one. My arrest and my testimony. I went up there and visited with him two or three times. Three times. The last time was the day of his execution. I didnt have to go but I did. I sure didnt want to. He’d killed a fourteen year old girl and I can tell you right now I never did have no great desire to visit with him let alone go to his execution but I done it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“لأننا نخاف البوليس والجيش والإنجليز والأمريكان والظاهر والباطن؛ فقد انتهى بنا الأمر إلى ألَّا نخاف شيئًا.”
― نجيب محفوظ, ثرثرة فوق النيل

“This country was hard on people. But they never seemed to hold it to account. In a way that seems peculiar. That they didn't. You think about what all has happened to just this one family. I don't know what I'm doin here still knockin around. All them young people. We don't know where half of em is even buried at. You got to ask what was the good in all that. So I go back to that. How come people dont feel like this country has got a lot to answer for? They dont. You can say that the country is just the country, it dont actively do nothin, but that dont mean much...This country will kill you in a heartbeat and people still love it. You understand what I'm sayin?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men