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  • #1
    Rachel Joyce
    “If we don't go mad once in a while, there's no hope.”
    Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

  • #2
    Franz Kafka
    “One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
    Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks

  • #3
    Khaled Hosseini
    “For you, a thousand times over”
    Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

  • #4
    Dan    Brown
    “Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.”
    Dan Brown, Angels & Demons

  • #5
    Mitch Albom
    “Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #6
    Dan    Brown
    “History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
    Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

  • #7
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus, he was real nice."

    "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #8
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #9
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--"
    Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...
    August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #10
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “People who think dying is the is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #11
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “August says to Lily," You know some things don't matter that much Lily. Like the colour of the house. How big is that in overall scheme of life? But lifiting person's heart- now that matters. The whole problem with people is – they know what matters but they don't choose it. The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #12
    Sue Monk Kidd
    “Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
    Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

  • #13
    Elif Shafak
    “و لو أراد الله أن نكون متشابهين ،لخلقنا متشابهين ، لذلك فإن عدم احترام الاختلافات وفرض أفكارك علي الآخرين يعني عدم احترام النظام المقدس الذي أرساه الله”
    Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #14
    “أبحث عن حياة جديرة بالحياة”
    إليف شافاق, The Forty Rules of Love

  • #15
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #16
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #17
    Mary Ann Shaffer
    “I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.”
    Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #19
    Mitch Albom
    “Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
    Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

  • #20
    ربيع جابر Rabee Jaber
    “السنوات التي احملها كالجثث على ظهري.”
    ربيع جابر, دروز بلغراد: حكاية حنا يعقوب

  • #21
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

  • #22
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #23
    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #24
    Harper Lee
    “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #25
    Harper Lee
    “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #26
    أحمد خالد توفيق
    “إنه الاكتئاب .. الاكتئاب الخام الذي يمكن أن تذيب منه قطعاً في مياه الشرب لتجعل أمة من البشر تقرر الانتحار !!”
    أحمد خالد توفيق

  • #27
    “Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.”
    Michael Levine

  • #28
    Lewis Carroll
    “Alice: How long is forever?
    White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #29
    Aldous Huxley
    “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #30
    Fran Lebowitz
    “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
    Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader



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