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“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“وإن كان لا بد من المضيّ فليكن مضياً حاداً كنصل، دقيقاً كشعرة، ومستقيماً كصراط الله! من دون تراخٍ ولا تلويحات وداع، مجرد أعين تتلصص من وراء رموشها وقلبٌ يسأل ذاهلاً "هل ذهب؟”
― بثينة العيسى, ارتطام لم يسمع له دوي

“أن تعيش في مكانٍ يصادرك حتى آخر سنتمتر منك، يعني أن تبرع في فنون الالتفاف”
― بثينة العيسى, كبرت ونسيت أن أنسى

“الوقوف علي عتبات البهجة دائما أفضل من البهجة نفسها ..
أجل , البهجة أمر سهل لكن إذا طمعت فيها قتلتك و أهلكتك .”
― إبراهيم عبد المجيد, عتبات البهجة

“كان هناك يحب ويتزوج وينجب ويظل رغم ذلك واقفا يحول بيني وبين الآخرين.”
― رضوى عاشور, فرج

“The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.”
― Nikita Gill

“وقل لي ما إذا كنت على ضلال أو هدى فإني أثق بك.. وسواء أكنت مخطئة أم غير مخطئة فإن قلبي يسير إليك، وخير ما يفعل هو أن يظل حائماً حواليك, يحرسك ويحنو عليك”
― مي زيادة, Love Letters: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah

“how you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“أنا لن أكون أبا أبدا ،ولن تكون لي زوجة وأبناء.لن أعطى هذا العالم أطفالا ليعذبهم كما تعذبت،فلا طاقة لي لاحتمال عذاب طفل.”
― Youssef Ziedan, عزازيل

“هل الإنسان قادر على قتل الإله وتعذيبه، وتعليقه بالمسامير فوق الصليب !!”
― Youssef Ziedan, عزازيل

“ اكتب يا هيبا ، فمن يكتب لن يموت أبداً”
― يوسف زيدان, عزازيل

“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?”
― Rudy Francisco

“Just because you don’t believe in the Lord doesn’t mean his power isn’t working for you.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”
― Stephen King, Misery

“The longer you went without speaking, the harder it gets to break the silence.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I wasn’t heroic. I wasn’t simple. I was difficult. An emotionally challenging puzzle he wasn’t up for solving.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“Dreams suck. You think you’ve conquered something, you work on it over and over and tell yourself you’re getting better, you will yourself to get better, you congratulate yourself on getting better. And then you close your eyes at night, you drift off into another world, and suddenly your own brain is tapping you on the shoulder and saying, Guess what? You’re NOT better!”
― James Patterson, Invisible

“There’s so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it. The truth is we’re all scared. We’re terrified of each other.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“نصحته النصيحة الوحيدة الممكنة: تزوج.. لن تجهد بعد هذا في تذكر أين أمضيت ليلتك لأن زوجتك ستعرف.. لن تتساءل عن سبب تعاستك لأن زوجتك ستعرف.. الخلاصة أن كل مشاكلك المعنوية البلهاء ستتحول إلى كوارث مادية محترمة.. تذكر كيف كانوا قديما يعالجون مرضى الفصام بحقنهم بجراثيم الملاريا!”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, الآن نفتح الصندوق 1

“If you gave a man just the smallest amount of power—a handsome face, the ability to sing, a little money—the first thing he’d do is destroy a woman, or two if he could.”
― Peter Swanson, Before She Knew Him

“Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a different direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don't go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“There is no fool like an educated fool...”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace