ساعة وأنا أهيم في الأحداث القديمة.. في أطيافها التي كانت شخوصًا يومًا ما، والدنيا التي عاشوها، حتى أشياؤهم الصغيرة لم تفارق الذاكرة..
An hour I have wandered among old events, among their phantoms who were once people, and the world they lived in; even their small things have never left my memory.
From the novel Unforgettable Days · Chapter 11
Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.
Unforgettable Days
Unforgettable Daysكنت ببساطة مسحورًا به، مسحور لدرجة مؤذية، وكانت المشاعر تأخذني لبعيد وأتمنى لو كان هو أبي!
I was simply bewitched by him, bewitched to a harmful degree; my feelings carried me far away and I wished he were my father.
Unforgettable Daysومن يومها دخلت قلبه.. أحبني وأحببته..
From that day I entered his heart. He loved me, and I loved him.
Unforgettable Daysتطور من الداخل، وعوض نفسه عن بصره الذي كلّ وأصابته الشيخوخة. هرس سكك البلدة على مدار عمره الطويل، وخرائط خرائط مرصوصة في دماغه، لكل شارع أو حارة أو زقاق، المداخل والمخارج والانحناءات.
He had evolved from within, compensating for the sight that old age had worn out. He had trodden the village lanes all his long life, and maps upon maps were stacked in his head: every street, alley and passage, the entrances, exits and bends.