فلا يعرف اليتم إلا من جربه.. إحساس بالخواء، كأنك قطرة ماء تسربت فتشربتها الرمال
Only one who has tasted it knows orphanhood: a feeling of emptiness, as if you were a drop of water that seeped away and was drunk by the sand.
From the novel Menorahs and Minarets · Chapter 20
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.