وشيئًا فشيئًا أخذت أصنع عالمًا يخصني. وتكون لي فيه أسرار. وقد أسمع كلمةً عن أبي فأشيِّد منها معمارًا في الخيال أهيم فيه.
Little by little I began to build a world of my own, with secrets in it; I might hear a single word about my father and raise from it a whole edifice in my imagination to wander in.
From the novel Diary of a Jewish Muslim · Chapter 4
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.