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“إن كل شيءٍ هنا يعاندني ولكن عليّ أن لا أصدّق ذلك، عليّ أن أصدّق ما يقال وأشيح عن التساؤل والمساءلة، إنهم يقولون وحسب، يقولون وحسب، لا يكلفون أنفسهم إلا عناء القول ويتركون الفهم اليائس لأمثالي: المرأة لا تصلح للقيادة، المرأة لا تصلح للبرلمان، المرأة لا تصلح للرياضيات، لماذا ينبغي أن يخبرني العالم عن مكاني الصحيح عوضاً عن أن أكتشفه بنفسي؟”
― بثينة العيسى, عروس المطر

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.”
― Lawrence Clark Powell

“But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.”
― Simone Elkeles, Perfect Chemistry

“الكتابة بخط اليد على الجدار ليست غامضة ولا مهددة لمن يستطيع أن يترجمها. الجدران تنهار، وتنهار معها مخاوفنا وترددنا. لكن آخر جدار ينهار هو ذاك الذى يطوّق الذات داخله. ومن لا يقرأ بعينىّ الذات لا يقرأ أبدا. العين الداخلية تخترق الجدران كلها، وتفك طلاسم الخطوط كلها. تترجم "الرسائل" كلها. انها ليست عيناً قارئة أو مخمنة، بل عين واشية؛ لا تتلقى النور من الخارج، بل تُصدر نوراً. نوراً وفرحاً. وعبر النور والفرح ينفتح العالم، ينكشف ليبدو كما هو: جمال يفوق الوصف، وخلق لا ينتهى.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“But what really matters is not what you believe but the faith and conviction with which you believe…”
― Knut Hamsun, Mysteries

“هذه هي الحياة: أنك تتنازل عن متعك الواحدة بعد الأخرى حتى لا يبقي منها شيء وعندئذ تعلم أنه قد حان وقت الرحيل.”
― نجيب محفوظ

“الحياة يمكن تلخيصها في كلمتين: استقبال ثم توديع.”
― نجيب محفوظ, حضرة المحترم

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart.
...live in the question.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns