Creating means vandalizing the lives of other people, turning them into unwilling and unwitting participants. You steal their desires, their dreams, pocket their flaws, their suffering. You take what...
Biliyorsun.Neyi biliyorum?Gözlerimin sadece seni gördüğünü.
Awake. And alone with demons of my own.
Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub’s days of happiness came to an end.
I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished...
I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was a biology major in college, then went to medical school. I've never had any formal training in writ...
ما أغنى هذه الأكاذيب ،،رجل غنيّ يخبر أكاذيب غنيّة ،،!
العُيون هي نوافذ الروح *
Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.
When guilt leads to good.
When Aziza first spotted Mariam in the morning, her eyes always sprang open, and she began mewling and squirming in her mother's grip. She thrust her arms toward Mariam, demanding to be held, her tiny...
The finger cut, to save the hand.
She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she sh...
Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.
It blistered the eyes , beauty like hers .
In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
I suspect the truth is we are waiting, all of us, against unsurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I...
For you, a thousand times over(Bareh tu hazar dafa)