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“لا بد من خيال واسع في عالم ضيق..”
― حسين البرغوثي, الضوء الأزرق

“الذكرى ثلج لا يُضمن الوقوفُ فوقه طويلاً”
― وديع سعادة

“الموت صمتاً أكثر من الموت إحتراقاً ، لأنك ترى نفسك كل يوم تفقد شيئاً من جسدك و روحك ولا تستطيع حتى أن تصرخ ألماً”
― واسيني الأعرج, أنثى السراب

“If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self denial, anxiety and discouragement.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“هذه قاعدة: نحن نتعب فى البحث عن الراحة.. و نشقى فى البحث عن السعادة.. و نفلس وراء الفلوس.. و نولد و نموت و ننسى أن نعيش.”
― أنيس منصور, من أول نظرة

“مادية تقف عند مظاهر الحياة ومرائيها ، وروحية تتغلغل في أعماقها وأطوائها وأصحاب النفس الأولى هم أولئك الجامِدُون المتبلِّدُون الذين يدورون في الحياة حول محور أنفسهم ولا يحفلون بشيء فيها إلَّا بما يتصل بمطامعهم أو بشهواتهم”
― مصطفى لطفى المنفلوطى, ‫ماجدولين‬

“وترى تلك الشهرة العظيمة التي تنتشر له شيئًا فشيئًا في أقطارِ البلاد ، فتمتلئُ نفسُهَا إكبارًا له ، وإعظامًا ، ولا يَملك قلبَ المرأة من الرجل مِثْلُ الشهرةِ وامتدادِ الصِّيتِ”
― مصطفى لطفى المنفلوطى, ‫ماجدولين‬

“What was it like to love him? Asked Gratitude.
It was like being exhumed, I answered, and brought to life in a flash of brilliance.

What was it like to be loved in return? Asked Joy.
It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.

What was it like to lose him? Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:

It was like hearing every goodbye ever said to me—said all at once.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“You were you,
and I was I;
we were two
before our time.

I was yours
before I knew,
and you have always
been mine too.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“Soul Mates

I don’t know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place, some other existence.”
― Lang Leav

“In her eyes, the sadness sings—of one who was destined, for better things.”
― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“I'm not a bit changed--not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real ME--back here--is just the same.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I can't cheer up — I don't want to cheer up. It's nicer to be miserable!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“To begin at the beginning.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“From a drop of water,” said the writer, “a logical man could understand oceans and waterfalls without having ever seen or heard of them.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes Remastered: A Study in Scarlet

“You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It