“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 to its place, holding on to the steering wheel of heaven” — 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
