You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

What does it mean, to lose one's mind? Where does it go? If a man is out of his mind, where is he? What is insane when the world is mad by contrast?

Ma'alesh; no matter; never mind; what can you do but accept things as they are? Ma'alesh, your pot overturned in the fire; ma'alesh, your prize mare died; ma'alesh, you lost all your possessions and half your family. The word was the everyday essence of Islam - which itself, after all, means "submission.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

The hand of bone and sinew and flesh achieves its immortality in taking up a pen. The hand on a page wields a greater power than the fleshly hand ever could in life.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.