Saira Arif > Saira's Quotes

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
― Joe L. Wheeler

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“Always craft a story from real life encounters. It is more believable and you are able to tell it with some emotion.”
― Khalid Muhammad, Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office

“There are many ways to turn someone to betray their country - money, ideology, compromise and ego work best. If they don't respond to those, a bullet will help seal the deal.”
― Khalid Muhammad, Agency Rules - Never an Easy Day at the Office

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Give me sweet lies, and keep your bitter truths.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.”
― Italo Calvino

“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“A bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where you’re still dreaming but it’s slowly slipping? I wish we could feel like that more often. I also wish I could click my fingers three times and be transported to anywhere I like. I wish that people didn’t always say ‘just wondering’ when you both know there was a real reason behind them asking. And I wish I could get lost in the stars.

Listen, there’s a hell of a good universe next door, let’s go.”
― e.e. cummings

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

“The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.”
― Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“Love makes us such fools.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, In Praise of Reading and Fiction: The Nobel Lecture

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“There´s nothing I have to do. And nowhere I have to be. With no destination, no map, and no agenda. I´m free to just wander.”
― Gemma Burgess

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“People never notice anything.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Pain is only relevant if it still hurts.”
― Ed Sheeran

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows