Heba Magdy > Heba's Quotes

“People always clap for the wrong reasons.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -- maybe less than a lot, but always more than none.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Home keeps meaning different things, but she has to know her way back to it. It’s a need buried too deep in her to be pulled out.”
― M.R. Carey , The Girl with All the Gifts

“I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“That smile could end wars and cure cancer.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him.
Something always did.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“الحكاية لا تكتمل بروايتها، إنما يكملها من يسمعها”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“And I kept thinking, over and over, is this what it feels like to go insane?”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“We are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. ... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only led to a lonely life accompanied by the last words of the already dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“When you stop wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stop suffering when they do.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska