19 Quotes by Alaa Al Aswany

A mother loves her children unconditionally. However they wrong her, she'll carry on loving them.

Everything that happened to you is a page that's been turned and is done with.

If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

A mother loves her children unconditionally. However they wrong her, she’ll carry on loving them.

Nationalities are a facist way of thinking aimed at forcing people into a narrow and stupid sense of belonging. It makes some people feel superior to others and perpetuates hatred and war.

Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought about if we wanted it enough?