- كانت عِشْرة يا ابني، والعشرة متهونش إلا على ولاد الحرام.
It was a shared life, my son—and a shared life is cheap only to the wicked.
From the novel Menorahs and Minarets · Chapter 6 · Umm Hasan (character)
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.