Leen > Leen's Quotes

“Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?”
― The Joker Heath Ledger

“Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker”
― Christoper Nolan

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless.
I am Divergent.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“لن تستطيعي أن تجدي الشمس في غرفة مغلقة ”
― غسان كنفاني

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”
― Amy Sedaris

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen.”
― Conan O'Brien

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“Spanish, huh?" he said, glancing down at the scattered papers as he grabbed them. "Can you say anything interesting?"
"El tono de tu voz hace que queria estrangularme." I stood up and waited for him to hand over my papers.
"That sounds sexy," he said, getting to his feet and handing me the stack of Spanish work he'd swept together. "What's it mean?"
"The sound of your voice makes me want to strangle myself."
"Kinky.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“Your sense of humor needs some work, then,' Wesley suggested. 'Most girls find my jokes charming.'

'Those girls must have IQs low enough to trip over.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“Wesley Rush was the most disgusting womanizing playboy to ever darken the doorstep of Hamilton High… but he was kind of hot. Maybe if you could put him on mute… and cut off his hands… maybe—just maybe—he’d be tolerable then. Otherwise, he was a real piece of shit. Horn dog shit.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“Just when I think you might have a soul, you say shit like that.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“I’m the wind beneath your wings”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“Go try your charming act on some tramp with low self-esteem, because I'm not falling for it.”
― Kody Keplinger, The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“-أتعرفين ما هو الوطن يا صفية ؟ الوطن هو ألا يحدث ذلك كله .”
― Ghassan Kanafani, عائد إلى حيفا

“بالدم نكتب لفلسطين
We write with the blood for Palestine”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“إذا كنا مدافعين فاشلين عن القضية..فالأجدر بنا أن نغير المدافعين..لا أن نغير القضية...!”
― Ghassan Kanafani

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever