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“You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“أنا أحسن واحد يقنعك تحكي…

ومابيحكيش…

وأحسن واحد يقنعك تبكي…

...وما بيبكيش…

أنا أحسن واحد يقنعك تفرح….

وأحسن واحد يقنعك تجرح…

أنا أحسن واحد ميت….

يقدر يقنعك….تعيش…”
― مصطفى إبراهيم, المانيفستو

“And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me, then!...Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“. العادة كفيلة بأن تجعل الألم غير أليم”
― نجيب محفوظ, القاهرة الجديدة

“عادة ما أشعر انى خفيفة قادرة على ان أطير وأنا مستقرة فى مقعد أقرأ رواية ممتعة. حين أشعر بنفسى ثقيلة أعرف أنى على مشارف نوبة جديدة من الاكتئاب”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.”
― Nikola Tesla

“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“في فيلم "سينما باراديزو" يقول "توتو" للعجوز "ألفريدو" : سمعت أنك لم تَخرُج ولم تعد تكلم أحدا". يرد العجوز: هناك مراحل في الحياة يستوي فيها الكلام و عدمه" صفحة 190”
― ريتا خوري, أسرار صغيرة

“Look at me, Mariam.'
Reluctantly, Mariam did.
Nana said, 'Learn this now and learn it well, my daughter: Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“نعرف القشور عن أنفسنا ودون الغوص العميق والمؤلم يبقى الانسان أشد أعداء نفسه ضراوة لأنه يجهلها تماما”
― ريتا خوري, أسرار صغيرة

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“و شعرت بأن فى روحى ثقباً .. ثقباً يتسع .. و يمتص كل ذكرياتى و حياتى و أحلامى ..
وددت لو كان شخص أعرفه بقربى .. أحكى له كل شئ .. أقص عليه حكاية الثقب”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I am a Tuesday 2 a.m., gunshots muffled by a few city blocks, I am a broken window during February. My bones crack on a nightly basis. I fall from elegance with a dull thud, and I apologize for my awkward sadness. I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people, that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen. The way light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm. You don’t see the lightning, but you hear the echoes.”
― Anna Peters

“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
― Clive Barker, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War