هو بيتي.. فيه جَدي وهزلي، ودقات على الباب من أصحاب، وموطن سترني بعدما عز على أهل أبي حتى السؤال..
It is my home: my earnest and my jest are in it, friends' knocks on the door, and a shelter that covered me when my father's people couldn't even be bothered to ask after me.
From the novel Menorahs and Minarets · Chapter 12
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.