Jude Qattan > Jude's Quotes

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“شيءٌ ما يدعونا لأن نواصل الحياة، وكأننا ننتظر فرحاً، ربما لن يأتي أبداً، لكن هناك متعة في انتظار أشياء ليست بالحسبان.”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“مات/ مات حزيناً مثل كل الاشياء في الوطن”
― يامن النوباني, ذاكرة اللوز

“I'd rather die my way than live yours.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“So I'm just suppose to bare my soul to you?" In the blink of the eye, he darkens the moment. "Well, you're asking me to bare mine.”
― Ella Frank, Blind Obsession

“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Yes, Phillipe. I want to feel you everywhere before I feel you nowhere.”
― Ella Frank, Blind Obsession

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Hate isn’t the most dangerous thing, he’d said. Indifference is.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I love you. Remember. They cannot take it”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need to be inside another human being. I felt this desperate compulsion to become one with him. This was desire. This was to crave. This was what if felt like to want.”
― Ella Frank, Blind Obsession

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order?”
― Jarod Kintz, Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

“Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“She is no longer here, but he won't let her go. So, where does that leave me? Well, that's easy. I'm left alone.”
― Ella Frank, Blind Obsession

“You've fucking destroyed me. First, she did, and now, you are.”
― Ella Frank, Blind Obsession

“I love you. That is the beginning, that is the end. That is everything.”
― Ella Frank, Blind Obsession

“It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.”
― Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“When things are rough, people look for an escape. A way out. Sometimes it's hard to find the right way.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“That’s the emptiest feeling, to know that you would hurt someone else just to feel something.”
― R.K. Lilley, Grounded

“One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“The hell with naseeb. Naseeb is what people blame for every thing they can't fix.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

“This life is difficult. We lose fathers, brothers, mothers, songbirds and pieces of ourselves. Whips strike the innocent, honors go to the guilty, and there is too much loneliness. I would be a fool to pray for my children to escape all of that. Ask for too much and it might actually turn out worse. But I can pray for small things, like fertile fields, a mother’s love, a child’s smile—a life that’s less bitter than sweet.”
― Nadia Hashimi, The Pearl that Broke Its Shell