He called out to her as though she were there with us in the…

نادى عليها كما لو أنها موجودة معنا في الغرفة، سكرات وهلاوس، ربما! لكن الأمر بالنسبة إليه لم يكن كذلك، بدا وكأنه يراها بالفعل، أو في أدنى حد يشعر بها عن طريق آخر غير طريق البصر والعيون.

He called out to her as though she were there with us in the room. The throes of death, hallucinations, perhaps. But not for him: he seemed to see her truly, or at the very least to sense her by some way other than sight and eyes.

From the novel Unforgettable Days · Chapter 25

Words of a narrator or a character belong to the novel's world, not to the author's personal views.

Unforgettable Days

كنت 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 Days

كما للحاضر أناسه الذين نراهم ويروننا نكلمهم ويكلموننا، الماضي هو الآخر له أناسه ويعيشون فينا بقدر ما نعيش، فلهم حضورهم ولهم وجود وإن شئنا رأيناهم وكلمونا وكلمناهم..
Just as the present has its people, whom we see and who see us, whom we speak to and who speak to us, the past too has its people; they live in us as much as we live, they have presence and existence, and if we wish we see them, they speak to us and we speak to them.

Unforgettable Days

لم يَطُل الأمر أكثر من ذلك، فأمي الأكثر دراية بمن هم في اللحظات الأخيرة، همست لي بأن أخرج الآن، لم تشأ بقائي لحظة خروج الروح..
It did not last much longer. My mother, who knew best those in their final moments, whispered to me to leave now; she did not want me there at the moment the soul departed.

Unforgettable Days