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“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”
― Stephenie Meyer, New Moon

“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
― Jack London

“He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“My soul will find yours.”
― Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.”
― Martin Luther

“You’re dangerous,” he says.
“Why?”
“Because you make me believe in the impossible”
― Simone Elkeles, Rules of Attraction

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
― Charles Dickens

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
― William Faulkner

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
― Andre Gide

“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”
― charles bukowski

“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.”
― Stephen King

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
― William Faulkner

“He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“إذا فاجأني الموت في وقت من الأوقات ، فإنني أصافحه و لا أخافه ، بقدر ما أخاف المرض ، فالمرض ألم مذل لا يحتمل ، لكن الموت ينهى كل شيء !..”
― عباس محمود العقاد, أنا

“ عندما علم الإسكندر أن أحد أصدقائه في أثينا فشل في إقناع فتاة بالزواج منه . بعث إليه بهذه الرسالة :

هنالك طريقتان لإقناع الفتاة بأن تكون لك : أن تعطيها الكثير من الهدايا وأن تحبها .. ولاتوجد طريقة ثالثة لأن الناس ولدوا أحراراً”
― أنيس منصور, أعجب الرحلات في التاريخ

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“الشخص, سيدٌ أم سيدة, إذا لم يجد متعةً في قراءة الروايات, فهو غبيٌ حتماً.”
― جين أوستن

“كلما زادت معرفتي بالعالم , كلما تيقنت بأني لن أجد رجلاً أحبُّه بحق!”
― جين أوستن, Sense and Sensibility

“Never fall in love?"
"Always," said the count. "I am always in love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard