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“Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. You may find one more agreeable to look at, but you cannot say one is true and the other is false.”
― Ted Chiang, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

“When you read The Arabian Nights you accept Islam. You accept the fables woven by generations as if they were by one single author or, better still, as if they had no author. And in fact they have one and none. Something so worked on, so polished by generations is no longer associated with and individual. In Kafka's case, it's possible that his fables are now part of human memory. What happened to Quixote could happen to to them. Let's say that all the copies of Quixote, in Spanish and in translation, were lost. The figure of Don Quixote would remain in human memory. I think that the idea of a frightening trial that goes on forever, which is at the core of The Castle and The Trial (both books that Kafka, of course, never wanted to publish because he knew they were unfinished), is now grown infinite, is now part of human memory and can now be rewritten under different titles and feature different circumstances. Kafka's work now forms a part of human memory.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Conversations, Volume 1

“The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“The Isle of Pines was Circe's isle, with white marble columns here and there in the dark, green, and pirates would be dueling with a flash of clashing swords and a flash of recklessly smiling white teeth. The Gulf, like the Caribbean, is haunted by the ghosts of the old buccaneers. Tampico, to Pete, wasn't the industrial shipping port his father knew. It had palaces and parrots of many colors, and winding white roads. It was an Arabian Nights city, with robed magicians wandering the streets, benign most of the time, but with gnarled hands like tree-roots that could weave spells.

Manoel, his father, could have told him a different story, for Manoel had shipped once under sail, in the old days, before he settled down to a fisherman's life in Cabrillo. But Manoel didn't talk a great deal. Men talk to men, not to boys, and that was why Pete didn't learn as much as he might have from the sun-browned Portuguese who went out with the fishing fleets. He got his knowledge out of books, and strange books they were, and strange knowledge.

("Before I Wake...")”
― Henry Kuttner, Masters of Horror

“In this way he continued until he was fourteen years of age, when his extraordinary destiny took him by the hand, and led him, step by step, through adventures so wonderful that words can scarce describe them.”
― Arabian Nights

“Where are you going this hot day, Misâ€� DeJong?â€�

Selina sat up very straight. “To Bagdad, Mrs. Pool.�

“To — Where’s that? What for?�

“To sell my jewels, Mrs. Pool. And to see Aladdin, and Harun-al-Rashid and Ali Baba. And the Forty Thieves.�

Mrs. Pool had left her rocker and had come down the steps. The wagon creaked on past her gate. She took a step or two down the path, and called after them. “I never heard of it. Bag — How do you get there?�

Over her shoulder Selina called out from the wagon seat. “You just go until you come to a closed door. And you say ‘Open Sesame!� and there you are.�

Bewilderment shadowed Mrs. Pool’s placid face. As the wagon lurched on down the road it was Selina who was smiling and Mrs. Pool who was serious.

The boy, round eyed, was looking up at his mother. “That’s out of Arabian Nights, what you said. Why did you say that?� Suddenly excitement tinged his voice. “That’s out of the book. Isn’t it? Isn’t it! We’re not really ——�

She was a little contrite, but not very. “Well, not really, perhaps. But ’most any place is Bagdad if you don’t know what will happen in it. And this is an adventure, isn’t it, that we’re going on? People in disguise in the Haymarket. Caliphs, and princes, and slaves, and thieves, and good fairies, and witches.�

“In the Haymarket! That Pop went to all the time! That is just dumb talk.”
― Edna Ferber, So Big

“Je quitte ce jardin en emportant dans mon coeur, comme la tulipe sanglante, la blessure de l'amour.
Le malheureux est celui qui sort du jardin du monde, sans avoir emporté la moindre fleur dans le pan de sa robe.”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

“Then how does one go about making the impossible, possible ?”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“We haven’t heard any stories like these, Beti!â€� Bana gasped.
‘Really? Oh, I’ve got a thousand and one of ’em.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“The true friend is one who goes with you
And who hurts himself in order to help you
When you are shattered by the blows of fate ,
It is your friend who breaks himself in order to restore you”
― Anonymous , The 1001 Arabian Nights

“This world is the home of those who have no home
It deceives the fool who entrusts it with his wealth , his children , his family and his clan
He continues to put his trust with it, treading proudly on the earth until he rests between it ( with his nearest and dearest soil over him )”
― Anonymous , The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1

“Acquire provisions of piety in this world for you will leave ,
And know there is no doubt that death is on its way.
The comfort you have here is all deceit and grief;
Your worlds life is absurd vanity.
This world is like a travelers camping ground;
He halts here in the evening and in the morning he is gone.”
― Anonymous , The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1

“There was a time when the days were in our service,
While we were with each other in the happiest of lands.
Who will now bring me to the house of the dear ones,
Where the place is illuminated* and there is times delight*

* play on the name of Dauâ€� Al-makan, literally ‘light of the placeâ€� and nuzhat Al-Zaman literally times delight (on the siblings of night 72)”
― Anonymous, The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1

“Praise be to God , who has given you all beauty,
So that I have remained among your prisoners
You whose glance enslave all of mankind,
Pray that I may be saved from the arrows that you shoot.
Two opposites , water and a burning flash of fire ,
Are found combined as a marvel in your cheeks,
For my heart you are hellfire and the delight of paradise .
How bitter and sweet you are for it!”
― Anonymous , The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, Volume 1

“Scarce had Aladdin’s mother begun to rub the Lamp when there appeared to her one of the Jinn, who said to her in a voice like thunder, “Say what you want of me. Here am I, your slave and the slave of whosoever holds the Lamp.”
― Antoine Galland, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp: A Classic Folktale from the ‘Arabian Nightsâ€�

“I greeted her and told her my story, and she said, "O my sister, who is safe from the accident of life and the misfortune of the world?" Then she repeated the following verses:
Such is the world; with patience it is best
The loss of wealth or loss of love to breast.”
― Anonymous .

“Draw closer... closer, that you might clearly hear my words; for in the telling of tales, the softly spoken word may carry more power than the shout... the silence between words, more power than the words themselves.
“I know this, because I am Omar, the Teller of Tales.”
― Robin Tompkins, Omar the Teller of Tales and Other Stories

“Mine is a marvellous tale which were it written with needles on the inner corners of the yes of men would serve as as warning to those who take heed”
― Anonymous , Malcom C Lyons

“Do not feel safe with those whose hearts you have filled with anger
And do not think to yourself this anger may have gone
Snakes are smooth to the touch, but what they show you is a cloak
While what they hideaway is a deadly poison”
― Malcom C. Lyons

“The UAE Sonnet

I'm asked to compare USA with UAE,
So here it is, in my free form sonnetary.

For starters, there is no comparison -
UAE is a civilized country, USA is not.
Sure UAE has its share of violations,
like every living country in the world,

but unlike USA, the incredible growth
and the very birth of UAE is not founded
on the worst kind of atrocities in history.

In fact, forget the rich, safe and
prosperous UAE - on the civilization scale
USA is the bottom scraper of history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“I'm asked to compare USA with UAE,
So here it is, in my free form sonnetary.

For starters, there is no comparison -
UAE is a civilized country, USA is not.
Sure UAE has its share of violations,
like every living country in the world,

but unlike USA, the incredible growth
and the very birth of UAE is not founded
on the worst kind of atrocities in history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets