Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Algerian writer
The most beautiful smile is the one for someone who isn’t there, who just popped on your mind.
- 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
In winter, some voices are like coats.
- 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
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 Mosteghanemi
We are cheaper than anything we own. Otherwise, how can a 10 Fr ashtray lives after you? How can a watch costs 500 Fr keep spinning after your heart stops? How about your bed? Your chair? Your favourite shoe? Literally, things that cost you the most are the first to betray you and those that almost consumes your life will leave you to go to others!
- 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
No one stays for you. Everybody stays depending on their need for you.
- Ahlam Mosteghanemi
How do you want us to tune the lens and our eyes are filled with tears.
- Ahlam Mosteghanemi
Don't trust the beginnings, truth is told in the last moments.
- Ahlam Mosteghanemi