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“It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them. ”
― Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13

“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
― James Dickey

“كم يكون المرء شجاعا عندما يتأكد من أنه محبوب!”
― سيجموند فرويد

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.”
― Susan Faludi

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”
― H.G. Wells

“الإنسان ينسج حياته على غير علم منه وفقاً لقوانين الجمال حتى في لحظات اليأس الأكثر قتامة”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I thought of all the others who had tried to tie her to the ground and failed. So I resisted showing her the songs and poems I had written, knowing that too much truth can ruin a thing. And if that meant she wasn't entirely mine, what of it? I would be the one she could always return to without fear of recrimination or question. So I did not try to win her and contented myself with playing a beautiful game. But there was always a part of me that hoped for more, and so there was a part of me that was always a fool.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

“السعادة هي جماع المُتع المنثورة في كل تفاصيل حياتنا، حتى أسوأ تفصيلة تحمل متعة ما، لكننا في بحثنا المحموم عن السعادة، كتلة واحدة مكتملة وواضحة، ندهس هذه المتع، ولا نجد السعادة أبدا.”
― أشرف الخمايسي, منافي الرب