Nath Palathanarotch

“- So, what do you do?
- Nothing.
- What kind of nothing?
- The nothing kind of nothing.”
― Hallgrímur Helgason, 101 Reykjavik

“Artists try to depict people; and people depict the artist's' conception of people.”
― Waguih Ghali, Beer in the Snooker Club

“Vows are destined to be forgotten. We never remember our vows until after disasters strike.”
― Ibrahim al-Koni, The Seven Veils of Seth: A Modern Arabic Novel from Libya

“Ya Ummi(my mother), I cannot live my life with a woman who has no key to my mind and does not share my concerns. She cannot - will not - read anything. She shrugs off the grave problems of the day and asks if I think her new tablecloth is pretty. We are living in difficult times and it is not enough for a person to be interested in his home and his job - in his own personal life. I need my partner to be someone to whom I can turn, confident of her sympathy, believing her when she tells me I'm in the wrong, strengthened when she tells me I'm in the right. I want to love, and be loved back - but what I see is not love or companionship but a sort of transacton of convenience santioned by religion and society and I do not want it.”
― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love