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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

“كنا نريد وطنا نموت من أجله، وصار لنا وطن نموت على يده”
― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك

“From the house of unbelief
to true religion
is a single breath;
From the world of doubt
to certainty
is a single breath;
Enjoy this precious single breath,
for the harvest
of our whole lives
is that same one breath.”
― Omar Khayyám, Quatrains - Ballades

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“I’ve become skeptical of the unwritten rule that just because a boy and girl appear in the same feature, a romance must ensue. Rather, I want to portray a slightly different relationship, one where the two mutually inspire each other to live - if I’m able to, then perhaps I’ll be closer to portraying a true expression of love.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“لماذا التخلص من الله للوقوع في الذات ؟ لماذا تبادل الجثث هذا ؟”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“كان الشعور يراود أرمانوش في أن وراء اعتراض فارسنغ المتواصل على قراءتها انما يكمن في قلق بنيوي ان لم يكن في قلق بدائي: انه الخوف من البقاء حية, اذ لم ترغب في ظهورها براقة أكثر مما ينبقي أو أن تغرد خارج السرب, كان الشعراء و الأدباء و الفنانون و المثقفون أول الناس من ملة الأرمن الذي قضت عليهم الحكومة العثمانية السابقة. فقد تخلصت الحكومة أولا من ((العقول)) و بعدها مضت في طريقها لاخراج البقية_و هم عامة الناس. و كما هو شأن الكثير من الأسر الأرمنية في الشتات التي تشعر بالأمن و السلام هنا و لكنها تفتقر الى الراحة, فان اسرة جقماقجي كانت تشعر بالسرور و الانزعاج عندما تجد احد أبنائها يقرأ أكثر مما ينبقي و يفكر أكثر مما ينبغي و يبتعد كتيرا جدا عن كل ما هو اعتيادي.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul