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“Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Believe it or not--it takes a lot of love to hate you like this.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Know thy enemy, Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War.”
― Greer Hendricks, The Wife Between Us

“God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for his.”
― Mal Peet, Tamar

“Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.”
― Mal Peet, Life: An Exploded Diagram

“So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?”
― Mal Peet, Tamar

“A poet says, “The libraries of how many a nation did that orphan wipe clean who did not even learn how to read?”
― Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Faza’il e Durood

“The reason for which the book Dalaa’ilul Khayraat was written is well known. The author was once in need of making wudhu when he could not find a rope and bucket to draw water from a well. Seeing his dilemma, a young girl approached the well and spat into it, causing the water to rise to the top. Taken aback, the author asked her the reason for this. She replied that it was because of the blessings of Durood. This then spurred him on to write the book.”
― Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Faza’il e Durood

“Another couplet states, “Without attending any school and without even learning to read, my beloved has become the teacher of thousands of Madrasahs by his mere indications.”
― Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Faza’il e Durood

“While people like Hadhrat Uwais Qarni were distant, they remained close to Rasulullaah while people like Abu Jahal were close, yet they remained so far.”
― Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi, Faza’il e Durood

“But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn’t it? People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.”
― Paula Hawkins, Into the Water

“Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It’s true,”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Beautiful sunshine, cloudless skies, no one to play with, nothing to do. Living like this, the way I’m living at the moment, is harder in the summer when there is so much daylight, so little cover of darkness, when everyone is out and about, being flagrantly, aggressively happy. It’s exhausting, and it makes you feel bad if you’re not joining in.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“it’s as if people can see the damage written all over me, can see it in my face, the way I hold myself, the way I move.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“it’s possible to miss what you’ve never had, to mourn for it.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“There is a theory that nothing in nature is ever lost—that every sound ever made, every word ever spoken, still exists somewhere in space and time and may one day be recalled.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Memories of Midnight

“Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Memories of Midnight

“Desi rarely says jackfuck or shitbag; he says swine, which sounds more poisonous on his lips.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters. And”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“My gosh, Nick, why are you so wonderful to me?'

He was supposed to say: You deserve it. I love you.

But he said, 'Because I feel sorry for you.'

'Why?'

'Because every morning you have to wake up and be you.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl