“How do people who love each other do it? How can they stand it? What is it that makes them forget they… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“I’m so old that I often tell myself, on nights when multitudes of stars are sparkling in the sky, there must necessarily be something… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“But there’s something irreparable as well: The crime forever compromises both love and the possibility of loving. I killed a man, and since then,… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“Why is it forbidden down here and promised up there? Drunken driving. Maybe God doesn’t want humanity to drink while it’s driving the universe… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“Good God, how can you kill someone and then take even his own death away from him?” — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“I too have read his version of the facts. Like you and millions of others. And everyone got the picture, right from the start:… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“That’s the best proof of our absurd existence, my dear friend: Nobody’s granted a final day, just an accidental interruption in his life.” — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“As far as I’m concerned, religion is public transportation I never use.” — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“How do people who love each other do it? How can they stand it? What is it that makes them forget they were born… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“But Musa’s body will remain a mystery. There’s not a word in the book about it. That’s denial of a shockingly violent kind, don’t… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
“But no, he didn’t name him, because if he had, my brother would have caused the murderer a problem with his conscience: You can’t… — Kamel Daoud Copy Share Image
