Ahdaf Soueif

Quotes

• “I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in an...”
• “You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really ...”
• “Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging ...”
• “Tell me, if you thought a man had a tendresse for you, but he wasn't doing anything about it. And you wanted to hurry hi...”
• “She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he...”
• “And Egypt ? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? ...”
• “There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It ...”
• “I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying ‘This, too, shall pass.’ For a time, we do not even wa...”
• “I watch and listen, helpless to help. There is no point in saying "This, too, shall pass," For a time we do not even wan...”
• “So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - or to take no action ...”
• “And so the very thing that should make Egypt strong - the richness and diversity of her culture - serves to divide her a...”