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“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood, Volume Two

“ذات مرة اعتدت أن أكون شخصاً آخر, و أن شخصاً ما اعتاد أن يرغب فى أن يصبح أنا”
― أورهان باموق, The New Life

“عرفت أنها ستكون نهاية حياتي ولكن أردت فقط أن أعود للبيت, لم تكن لدي أي رغبة في الموت على الإطلاق, ولا في العبور غلى الحياة الجديدة”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“أين الأرواح المتشابهة (المتناسخة) التى أستطيع التحدث معها؟ أين البلاد التى أجد فيها الحلم الذى تحدث إلى قلبى؟ أين هؤلاء الذين قرءوا الكتاب أيضاً؟”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time -- you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.”
― Alice Munro, The Progress of Love