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“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“and in freedom, most people find sin.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes”
― John Green

“The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“وما بين فصل الخريف، وفصل الشتاءْ
هنالكَ فصلٌ أسميهِ فصلَ البكاءْ
تكونُ به النفسُ أقربَ من أيّ وقتٍ مضى للسماءْ”
― نزار قباني, أحبك أحبك والبقية تأتى

“لماذا تعانينَ من عقدة النقص؟
تختلقين الأكاذيبَ
تنتحرينَ بقطرة ماءْ
وتستعملينَ ذكاءك حتى الغباءْ
لماذا تحبين تمثيل دور الضحيةِ؟
في حين ليس هناك دليلٌ
وليس هناك شهودٌ
وليس هنا دماءْ”
― نزار قباني, أحبك أحبك والبقية تأتى

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

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”
― Logan Pearsall Smith