Hagar > Hagar's Quotes

“When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“No one can be a replacement for another person. That is why, farewells are always difficult.”
― Matsuri Hino, Vampire Knight, Vol. 1

“We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

“Like an unprotected photograph
some friendships fade.
People grow apart, lose touch,
want different things.
Dreams, woven together,
unravel.”
― Kimberly Marcus, Exposed

“I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“what are out stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“The greatest griefs are silent.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“The World is a very old place, so you'll never be able to tell a completely original story”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True

“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Hahaha. Of course you are.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“It's difficult to see the glass ceiling because it's made of glass. Virtually invisible. What we need is for more birds to fly above it and shit all over it, so we can see it properly.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman

“Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.”
― Christina Dodd, Scent of Darkness

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“Scars are just another kind of memory.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“We're going forward, but nothing changes.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“If you don't like vampire games, don't play”
― Vivian Vande Velde, Companions of the Night

“The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it’s a damn good start.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“Beliefs are the roads we take to our dreams. Believe you can do something-or believe you can't-and you'll be right everytime.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.”
― Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

“فماذا سأفعل يا أصدقاء
أتيت إليكم بلحنٍ جريح
لأن زماني زمانٌ قبيح
فجدران بيتي دمارٌ ... وريح
وبين الجوانح قلبٌ ذبيح !”
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“فلا البعد يعني غياب الوجوه
ولا الشوقُ يعرف قيد المكان”
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“حزين غنآئي ولكن حلمي عنيد عنيد .. فمازلت اعرف ماذا اريد”
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