عوالم كمال رُحيّم The Worlds of Kamal Ruhayyim

رفع كُلٌّ منهما يده مُحيِّيًا الآخر، والتقت عيناهما دون كلام، لكن الغرض تم، فعينا يوسف كانتا تشعران به وتُعزِّيانه، وأحسَّ هو بالراحة، كان في حاجةٍ لمن يتلطَّفُ به..

Each raised a hand in greeting, their eyes met without a word, yet the thing was done: Yusuf's eyes felt for him and consoled him, and he felt relief; he needed someone to be gentle with him.

From the novel Habashi’s Café · Chapter 21

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