Your Kindle Notes For:

Midaq Alley

Naguib Mahfouz

Last accessed on Tuesday July 7, 2020

14 Highlight(s) | 4 Note(s)

Some highlights have been hidden or truncated due to export limits.

Yellow highlight | Location: 155 Note | Location: 155

In this, as in many of Mahfouz’s works, we perceive time, here personified in the ageless Alley, to be the novel’s central focus. The aspirations and tragedies of its inhabitants are witnessed with total indifference by the Alley within which the circle of life and death is forever run again. In this it is a view in close focus of the human drama at large, selected by a literary craftsman of impressive skills. And in Midaq Alley, as in life itself, there is much gaiety, color, and excitement to enliven the passing scene.

Note:Central theme is time and it’s I difference to it’s inhabitants

Yellow highlight | Location: 1,441 Note | Location: 1,441

A disposition like hers, no matter how rebellious and unmanageable, could be pacified and tamed with money.

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 1,484 Note | Location: 1,484

Her slimness and wistfulness contrasted with her strong and healthy husband, who beamed in contentment. She was a weak woman, and her faith, although firmly rooted, was not able to diminish her steady decline.

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 1,542 Note | Location: 1,542

With all those who reach his state of confusion and promiscuity, prudence and intuition are likely to vanish.

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 1,942 Note | Location: 1,942

“He must wear a suit, too!” exclaimed the widow, her surprise mixed with unbelievable delight. “He wears jacket, trousers, a tarboosh, and shoes!” “May God reward you for your great worth.”

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 2,258 Note | Location: 2,258

She could think of no cure for her hunger for power other than a great deal of money. She wanted the other things it would bring: dignity, beautiful clothes, jewelry, pride, and a whole new world of secure and happy people.

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 3,274 Note | Location: 3,274

He determined to ignore the news. His voice full of rage and contempt, he said, “That doesn’t interest me in the slightest.

Note:Show pain the same

Yellow highlight | Location: 3,976 Note | Location: 3,976

Scream from your mouth, not from your larynx. It’s a most ugly sound. It must be worked on. Those traces of Midaq Alley must be removed.

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 4,170 Note | Location: 4,170

Lovers often put their loved ones to a test, and if they only realized that test is merely a trick and not serious, then their delight in their lovers would be increased. I have always believed that those afflicted on earth are the closest favorites of God. He lavishes love on them in secret, lying in wait for them not far off, to see whether they are really worthy of His love and mercy.

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 4,217 Note | Location: 4,217

At this, Sheikh Darwish emerged from his silence and said thoughtfully, “Oh, Radwan Hussainy, remember me when you are in the ritual dress and tell the People of the House that their lover’s passion has drained and drunk him dry. Tell them he has spent all his wealth and possessions in pursuit of a futile love. Complain to them of the treatment he has suffered from the Lady of Ladies.”

Note:Meaning?

Yellow highlight | Location: 4,226 Note | Location: 4,226

“Let’s pray to God that next year we can make the pilgrimage together.” “If God wills,” muttered Salim Alwan mechanically.

Note:Inshallah

Yellow highlight | Location: 4,270 Note | Location: 4,270

“But don’t you think this fellow has insulted our honor and therefore must be punished?” The use of the word “honor” did not escape Hussain’s notice, and he realized that Abbas referred to the near-brotherly ties that bound them so closely. He suddenly recalled how his sister had been thrown into prison because of a similar scandal and the thought enraged him. He roared, “That doesn’t concern me. Hamida can go to the devil!”

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 4,383 Note | Location: 4,383

‘Man is named only to be forgotten and there’s never a heart that doesn’t change.’ ”

Note:

Yellow highlight | Location: 4,384 Note | Location: 4,384

Sheikh Darwish shrugged his shoulders indifferently and went on, his eyes still fixed on the roof: “ ‘Let him who dies of love die sad; there’s no good in any love without death.’ ”

Note:

Would you like to take some notes?

You haven’t created any notes for this book yet. You can add or remove bookmarks, highlights, and notes at any location in a Kindle book.

Learn more about notes and highlights

Sorry, we''ve experienced a problem. Please try again.