Ahlam Mosteghanemi Quotes & Sayings

How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

No one stays for you.
Everybody stays depending on their need for you. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn't there, who just popped on your mind. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

It is far easier for us to accept the death of someone we love than to cope with the idea of losing him and discovering that he is able to carry on with his life, in all its intricacies, despite our absence. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

In winter, some voices are like coats. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

The most beautiful novel is the one that starts with a sentence wholly unexpected by the reader who has lived through our storms and norms, and who might once have been the cause of our changing moods. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

Nervously, I light a cigarette and chase through the smoke for the wounds that years have seared my soul, words whose fire has never been quenched by ink. Is paper a dustbin for the memory, a place where we always deposit the ash of the last cigarette of nostalgia, the remnants of the final disappointment? Which one of us lights up or stubs the other? I really do not know. Before you, I never wrote anything worth mentioning. Because of you, I put pen to paper. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery - Ahlam (Chaos of the Senses) — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

People? They usually ask only stupid questions, forcing you to reply with equally stupid answers. For instance, they ask you what you do, not what you would have liked to do. They ask you what you own, not what you've lost. They ask about the woman you married, not about the one you love. About your name, but not if it suits you. They ask your age, but not how well you've lived those years. They ask about the city you live in, not about the city that lives in you. And they ask if you pray, not if you fear God.
So I've gotten used to answering these questions with silence. You know, when we shut up, we force others to reconsider their mistakes. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

The most beautiful love is the one who found it during our search for something else. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi