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“Sometimes we’re fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we’re shattered by things we would never have chosen. But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“How will I stop loving him, Mama? Will I .... forget ?
Mama sighed.
Ah. That. Love doesn't fade or die, baby girl. People tell you it does, but it doesn't. If you love him now, you'll love him in ten years and in forty. Differently, maybe , a faded version, but he's part of you now. And you are part of him.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Books are the mile markers of my life. Some people have family photos or home movies to record their past. I’ve got books. Characters. For as long as I can remember, books have been my safe place.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“A girl was like a kite; without her mother's strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“The world could tumble, change radically in two days, with just one less person living in it.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“And the books! She’d never seen so many. They whispered to her of unexplored worlds and unmet friends and she realized that she wasn’t alone in this new world. Her friends were here, spine out, waiting for her as they always had.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“sometimes there’s beauty in the tough words—it’s all in how you read them.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Anyone who puts on a crown, even if only as an
experiment, will end up looking for a kingdom.”
― Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad

“تاریخ پر است از گلوله‌هایی که خودشان هم نمی‌خواهند برسند به تن کسی.”
― مهدی یزدانی خرم, خون خورده

“هرکس حق داره هرطور می‌خواد فکر کنه و توقع داشته باشه دیگران هم به عقایدش احترام بگذارند. اما من قبل از اینکه با دیگران زندگی کنم، باید بتونم با خودم زندگی کنم. وجدان آدم تنها چیزیه که نمیتونه تابع نظر اکثریت باشه”
― Harper Lee

“راه نرفته شکست ندارد، اما پیروزی هم ندارد.”
― منصور ضابطیان, چای نعنا: سفرنامه و عکس‌های مراکش

“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“It's about the important things, like the way their face lights up when they laugh, or the way they move as they're walking towards you, or the way their freckles create a map of the stars.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

“Sometimes I think that the only true way we can ever know a thing's value is by losing it.”
― Rebecca Serle, The Dinner List

“آدمی زاد یکبار به دنیا می آید اما در هر بار جدایی یکبار تازه می میرد.”
― شاهرخ مسکوب, در سوگ و عشق یاران

“فقط آنان که می لغزند و می افتند، از فراز و نشیب راه باخبرند.”
― کالین مک کالو

“Life was like that, she guessed; it was all wrong until suddenly it was right, and you didn't really know how to react in either instance.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“گاهی باید ترس‌ها را توی کوله پشتی انداخت و کوله را آویزان کرد از شاخه‌ای و دل به حادثه‌ها سپرد. می‌دانم سخت است؛ اما زندگی را مگر چیزی جز سختی‌ها معنا می‌دهد؟”
― منصور ضابطیان, دو دستی: نوشته‌ها و عکس‌های سفر به ژاپن

“Sometimes the strongest person isn't the one who hits. It's the one who doesn't hit back.”
― Fredrick Backman