والغريب أنه أصابتني رجفة عندما قالوا إن الطائرة أقلعت، أحسست لحظتها بأنها هي التي تركتني ولست أنا الذي تخليت عنها.
Strangely, a shudder ran through me when they announced the plane had taken off; in that instant I felt it was the plane that had left me, not I who had abandoned it.
From the novel Days in the Diaspora · Chapter 2
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.