Hadeer > Hadeer's Quotes

“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“فلتنسيا يا ابنتى طرق السلامة لإنها لا تحمل المعرفة. و لتنسيا طرق الندامة لإن ليس لها وجود إلا فى أذهان ساكنى علب السردين الخائفين. و لتسيرا طريق من يذهب ليعود بالذهب”
― سحر الموجي, ن

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy—enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“اشمخي برأسك حتي عنان السماء ، ولا تغفلي عن أن ربك القوي لا يحب الضعفاء ، املئي صدرك بسرّ الحياة ، وتيقني أنك في حضرة الله الذي سوّاك حُرّة ، وأن هذه الحرية هي أمانته التي حملتها بعد أن أبت السماوات والأرض والجبال أن يحملنها وأشفقن منها ، وقولي لمن يعترض الطريق لا ولا ولا”
― سحر الموجي, دارية

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You don’t need to find the perfect thing all the time. Just find one that works, and go with it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“مهووسة أنا بالأماكن ، و بي اشتياق لمساحة تقبلنا كما نحن .. في لحظات الفرح و اليأس و الضعف و القوة .. و اليقين و الضياع .. مساحة تشبهنا على اختلافاتنا .. واسعة كقلبي و دافئة كحضنك..”
― غادة محمد محمود, أما هذه.. فرقصتي أنا

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban