Quotes from Ibrahim Nasrallah

Habbab, who had appeared out of nowhere like someone stripped of his past, would in due course find himself stripped naked on the portals of his future.

although the high walls that surrounded his home might conceal the tongues of fire, they could no longer conceal the clouds of smoke.

Was I dreaming? Was what I saw real? Did you hear what she said before she disappeared? Do you remember her laugh the way I remember it now?

Man, war isn't our thing!

No one has ever defeated him before," she said to herself. This terrified her. He was a monster. And when you manage to wound a monster, one of two things is bound to happen: either he will fly into a rage, destroying and killing as never before, as though he were bidding farewell to murder through a murder infinitely more gruesome, or he will become still, impassively observing his surroundings as he slowly bleeds to death.

Rayhana realized that she was powerful. However, she also realized that everything around her might turn to ashes in a fire the likes of which she had never seen before.

They watched the sun make its orbit around him. They watched the shadows growing shorter, then longer. The first day passed as though no one saw what he saw. On the second day, they began whispering among themselves. On the third day, they came rushing toward him from all directions. On the fourth day, he said to them, "All you can do is take Hamama out of this blazing heat." He was determined to maintain his vigil in the same place until the end.

It was a fury that exploded in the soldiers' faces against Great Britain, which was willing to hang one of them for possessing a knife, but couldn't hear the sound of bombs falling on them in broad daylight.

The settlement was defending itself." "By shooting us and throwing bombs at us even though we're unarmed?

As he looked at her, he saw the martyr's blood pouring forth in a stream between them, a stream that no human being could ford.

Hajj Khaled looked up at the sky. He reached out for his yellow keffiyeh and wrapped it around his neck. He placed his coat in Hamama's saddlebag. He looked at his two companions, and in his olive-green eyes they saw a mysterious gleam. He smiled.

they knew they were slaying Peterson by their endurance just as he was slaying them with his cruelty.

The British response to the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising between 1936 and 1939 was devastating. Britain stormed all of Palestine once more, killing more than five thousand Palestinians and wounding more than fifteen thousand others. It exiled and executed the Palestinian leadership. In addition, it organized death squads made up of British soldiers and Zionist forces known as 'special night forces,' which attacked Palestinian villages by night and killed many Palestinians.

There's only one thing I'm afraid of—that we'll be broken forever, since someone who's been broken forever will never rise again. So tell them: 'Beware of losing forever.

Never in my life have I had the thought that I was going out to fight in order to inflict defeat on somebody. Rather, I've always gone out to protect what was rightfully mine.

Thank God I'm blind, since I can't see the crimes Britain is committing against my people.

And always remember: if men believe that they'll outlive an empire, they will.

On these scorched lands, they'll never reap anything but a black harvest," predicted Hajj Khaled.

She picked up the revolver and turned it over in her hands. It amazed her to think that death, in all its enormity, could conceal itself inside a cold piece of blackened metal. She pointed the mouth of the gun at her face and looked inside it, but all she found there was darkness. After all, death is darkness, and in the darkness it lives.