Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

I’m all you have in this world Mariam, and when I’m gone you’ll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

Joseph shall return to Canaan, grieve not, Hovels shall turn to rose gardens, grieve not. If a flood should arrive, to drown all that's alive, Noah is your guide in the typhoon's eye, grieve not.