فيبدو أن كُلاَّ منا، ودون أن يدري، كان يصنع الآخر على هواه. أراها مسلمه، وتراني يهوديًا..
It seems each of us, without knowing it, had been shaping the other to our own liking. I see her as a Muslim, and she sees me as a Jew.
From the novel Days in the Diaspora · Chapter 13
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.