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“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“احتضنتني الطبيعة بكل جمالها وروعتها، وأبعدت عني كل ما ضاقت به النفس، وما كابدت منه الروح، وأضاءت النور في حياتي.”
― Sofia Tolstaya, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy: A Chronicle of Marriage to Leo Tolstoy and Turbulent Turn-of-the-Century Russia

“ففي أعماق نفس كل إنسان يوجد محرك لحياته.”
― Sofia Tolstaya, The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy: A Chronicle of Marriage to Leo Tolstoy and Turbulent Turn-of-the-Century Russia

“التاريخ مليء بالقيود، إنه يولد مكبلاً بالسلاسل.”
― مالك حداد

“ربما كانت الكتابة لعباً في عصور أخرى : أيام التوازن والانسجام, لكنها اليوم مهمة جسيمة, لم يعد الغرض منها تسلية العقول بالقصص الخرافية أو مساعدة هذه العقول على النسيان ، بل الغرض منها تحقيق حالة من التوحد بين جميع القوى الوضاءة التي لا تزال قادرة على الحياة حتى أيامنا الانتقالية هذه ، والغرض -أيضاً- تحريض الإنسان على بذل قصارى جهوده لتجاوز الوحش الكامن في أعماقه .”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Focus on keeping your strength. You're resourceful. Find a way to outsmart them.”
― Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls

“The world was waiting--wide open and hers for the taking.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“She couldn't bring herself to care, because those moment she spent brawling were the few moments she felt like herself again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“Imagine that you traveled all over the world, looking for happiness, looking for thrills to pass the time. Imagine seeing everything there is to see and still not finding happiness. Well, that would give you a very bleak outlook on life, would it not?”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“Talk. Talk about what had been haunting her these months. Haunting every thought, every dream, every breath. Talk.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“The person who possesses the creative gift owns something of which she is not always master-- something that is at times strangely wills and works for itself.”
― Cynthia Hand, My Lady Jane

“The silence brought back everything around her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“I'm not sure if I want it to go back to the way it was before," she admitted. "And I think... I think that's what scares me the most.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade

“But there are some times when words are necessary - when explanations are needed that mere gestures cannot convey.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Desert

“Everyone has something dark in their past. I suppose it's our job to overcome it. And if we can't overcome it, then all we can do is make the most of it.”
― Tricia Levenseller, Daughter of the Pirate King

“Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer, and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song.”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Underworld

“The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about it. I begin to understand why ghosts go in for so much sighing and hooting. It's not to scare their descendants. It's just that they find it so hard to breathe in a time other than their own.
We don't only have a place in existence. We also have an allotted span.
That's the way things are, and all I can do is extrapolate from what's around me now.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“But the days are still ours, and we still have many fine moments ahead of us.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hatred on the face of the planet, or at lease there would have been some long ceasefires.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl

“Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time.”
― Marissa Meyer, Cinder

“Most people would say I’m pretty cold, but I think of it more as…private. People are always saying “how are you?” to each other, and I guess I don’t see why I should answer such a personal question for just anyone.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“You be the push that makes them move.”
― Jay Kristoff, Illuminae

“Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“No one is truly honest,” Nigel answered. “Even if we don't lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
― stephanie garber, Caraval

“The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.”
― Amie Kaufman, Illuminae

“The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Hope is a powerful thing. Some say it’s a different breed of magic altogether.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval

“Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
― Stephanie Garber, Caraval