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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
"After all this time?"
"Always," said Snape.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Azkaban - the wizard prison, Goyle." said Malfoy, looking at him in disbelief. "Honestly, if you were any slower, you'd be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“أنا لم أوجد فقط لأتعلم الطهي ثم أتزوج فانجب أطفالاً ثم أموت! إذا كانت هذه هي القاعدة في بلدي فسأشذ أنا عنها . . .”
― كوليت خوري

“أريد رجلا يحبني وهو يعلم أن الكثيرات أجمل مني وأذكى مني. رجلا يحبني لأن روحي امتزجت وروحه، ولأن أفكاري طابقت أفكاره. ولا أريد .. لا أريد رجلا يحبني لأنه بعد وضعي بالميزان اكتشف أنني أحسن من غيري!”
― كوليت خوري

“In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“Oh, go to bed!" Dan said that, and went away.
"Oh, yes, it's all very well to say go to bed when a man makes an argument which another man can't answer.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“أي علم هذا الذي لم يستطع حتى الآن أن يضع أصوات من نحب في أقراص ، أو زجاجة دواء نتناولها سرًّا ، عندما نصاب بوعكة عاطفية بدون أن يدري صاحبها كم نحن نحتاجه”
― أحلام مستغانمي, عابر سرير

“أصبحت امرأة حرة .. فقط لأنني قررت أن أكف عن الحلم, الحرية أن لا تنتظر شيئاً..والترقب حالة عبودية”
― أحلام مستغانمي, فوضى الحواس

“الأحلام التي تبقى أحلاما لا تؤلمنا، نحن لا نحزن على شيء تمنيناه ولم يحدث، الألم العميق هو على ما حدث مرة واحدة وما كنا ندري انه لن يتكرر”
― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك

“تحاشي معي الأسئلة كي لا تجبريني على الكذب .
يبدأ الكذب حقاً عندما نكون مرغمين على الجواب ما عدا هذا فكل ما سأقوله لك من تلقاء نفسي هو صادق”
― أحلام مستغانمي, فوضى الحواس

“لا أصعب من أن تبدأ الكتابة في العمر الذي يكون فيه الآخرون قد انتهوا من قول كل شيء”
― أحلام مستغانمي, ذاكرة الجسد

“Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotion made the ply of human life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“‎"I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.”
― Anthony de Mello

“People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.”
― Anthony de Mello

“When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.”
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

“وبرغم ذلك، لست من الحماقة لأقول إنني أحبتك من النظرة الأولى. يمكنني أن أقول إنني أحبتك، ما قبل النظرة الأولى.

كان فيك شيء ما أعرفه، شيء ما يشدني إلى ملامحك المحببة إليّ مسبقاً، وكأنني أحببت يوماً امرأة تشبهك. أو كأنني كنت مستعداًَ منذ الأزل لأحبّ امرأة تشبهك تماماً.

كان وجهك يطاردني بين كلّ الوجوه، وثوبك الأبيض المتنقّل من لوحة إلى أخرى، يصبح لون دهشتي وفضولي”
― احلام مستغانمي

“‏مع كل ما نجحت في اكتسابه وكل ما أتقنته بالمران والوقت من خيارات متاحة للتعامل المرن مع العالم وناسه.. أدرك أني عجزت، عجزت عن ضم صفة القسوة لصفاتي القليلة السيئة الأخرى.”
― أسما حسين

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone's heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about. That would be so weird, except that the place in the hospital where babies are born would sound like a crystal chandelier in a houseboat, because the babies wouldn't have had time to match up their heartbeats yet. And at the finish line at the end of the New York City Marathon it would sound like war.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close