Lara Alsaeedy > Lara's Quotes

“And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“There is a way to be good again...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“إذاَ استقبلتَ العالَمَ بالنفسِ الواسعةِ, رأيتَ حقائقَ السرورِ تزيدُ وتتسِعُ, وحقائقَ
الهمومِ تصغُرُ وتَضيقُ, وأدركتَ أنَّ دنياكَ إن ضاقتْ فأنتَ الضيِّقُ لا هيَ.”
― مصطفى صادق الرافعي, وحي القلم

“أتدرون ما يحملنا على التعلق بالحياة ..!
أتعرفون ماذا يشدنا إليها ويخيفنا من الخروج منها ..!

إنه شيء واحد .. هو صلتنا بمن حولنا
هو حبهم لنا, وحبنا لهم
إننا نكره أن نغادرها ..
لأننا نخشى ألم الفرقة ومرارتها !”
― يوسف السباعي

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Christmas Box

“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“In the end, I think that's what matters, that he's truly a good person and that he's real. That he's someone you can hold on to on a cold winter's night and who knows how to make you feel warm inside.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

“Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“I missed you every hour. And you know what the worst part was? It caught me completely by surprise. I'd catch myself just walking around to find you, not for any reason, just out of habit, because I'd seen something that I wanted to tell you about or because I wanted to hear your voice. And then I'd realize that you weren't there anymore, and every time, every single time, it was like having the wind knocked out of me. I've risked my life for you. I've walked half the length of Ravka for you, and I'd do it again and again and again just to be with you, just to starve with you and freeze with you and hear you complain about hard cheese every day. So don't tell me why we don't belong together," he said fiercely.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind