4 Quotes by Hanan Al-Shaykh

Surely you know that pleasure soon evaporates, into thin air?Then all we are left with are stories.

Just remember what Satan says: “I teach men what I learn from women!

But were they Israeli planes dropping leaflets from the sky, or “flights of birds striking us with stones of baked clay” as if we were Ethiopians threatening Mecca in the Qur’an?

I don’t want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don’t want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I’m not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?