Quotes from Ibrahim Nasrallah

Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames

That night he wrote: Did I need you, O feet, In order to reach that distant place? I ask everyone I happen to see there, Have I really arrived? Did I need you, O heart, in order to hate and love? My father always said to me, If you want to make it home alive, hate your enemy.

they realized that a man like this was somebody you could storm hell itself with.

When we got closer to the place, we saw the Palestinian flag. In the center of its triangle, the revolution had added the image of a crescent embracing a cross.

At last, the gazelle came all the way up to Fatima, then stopped and cast a glance at the horseman as if to say, "You won't be able to do a thing now!

May God give you peace," she replied. As she said it, she discovered new meaning in that wish of hers, an entirely different meaning. It was as if, at long last, she had found the true meaning of this wish that people repeated every day so many times over.

You're so shortsighted, you might as well be blind!

According to an Arab saying, there are three types of service that aren't demeaning: service performed for one's household, taking care of one's mare, and waiting on a guest.

If you're afraid of losing her, remember that no one can lose something that didn't belong to him to begin with. If anyone thinks otherwise, he'll end up tormenting himself twice: first, on account of his ignorance, and second, on account of losing something that wasn't his.

In the silence that filled those moments, Khaled realized that there was someone who loved her more than he did.

It's enough for me just to sit in front of the paintings of Mahmud Sa'id and the statues of Mahmud Mukhtar. God, if you could only see his statue 'Egypt's Renaissance'! God, if you could only see the statue of 'The Peasant Woman' or 'The Khamasin.' God, if you could only hear Umm Kulthum and Abd al-Wahhab!

What you're calling upon me to believe in, I believe in already," Hajj Mahmud began. "As a Muslim, I believe in more prophets than you do as a Christian. As you may have noticed, we swear by the life of our Lady Mary and our Masters Jesus and Moses, just as we swear by the life of our Master Muhammad.

We don't think about the fact that some of us are Christians and some of us are Muslims unless you remind us of it.

There are even people among us who haven't registered their land in their names. However, every one of us knows exactly where his land begins and ends. And this isn't just true nowadays. This is the way it's been since time immemorial

as long as one's decided to give, he might as well give the best he's got.

She's come to you this time of her own accord, and crossed our threshold of her own free will. May she always be free, just as she is today.

it wouldn't be long before they would start having to pay a 'hat tax,' which was levied on everyone who wore a cloth head covering, such as a keffiyeh, a turban, or a fez!

rising artists from Yusuf Wahbi to Nagib al-Rihani, Ali al-Kassar, Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab, and even Umm Kulthum.

If you asked for our souls, it wouldn't be too much

Then she heard him say, "One!" And she realized that a third of her lifetime had just passed, never to return.

He was saying goodbye to a cherished part of his life, and he wondered: Was it necessary for me to leave it in order to see it from this new perspective

The landscape wouldn't have been complete without her.

As she came alongside the cornfield she giggled, and he heard the music that had emerged from the ring of her laughter

When he saw his wife smashing plates right and left, he shouted, "What! Are you looking for a husband