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“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“لم يزدك الحزن على غياب من رحلوا إلا هدوءاً ووقاراً. ربع قرن من مواسم الحزن والغياب، ربع قرن من فناجين القهوة التي ترتبها على الطاولة الخشبية في البيت الريفي كل صباح في انتظاره كأنه لم يغب أبداً.”
― نبال قندس, يافا: حكاية غياب ومطر

“You intolerable lunatic," he snarled at me, and then he caught my face between his hands and kissed me.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“truth didn’t mean anything without someone to share it with; you could shout truth into the air forever, and spend your life doing it, if someone didn’t come and listen.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted

“الذين يضحكون بصوت مرتفع ..
ليسوا بالضرورة سعداء ..
يفعل التعيس ذلك أحيانًا ليتّقي شماتة الأعداء !
والأسوأ من أن تكون حزينًا ..
ألا يكون بمقدورك أن تبوح بذلك لأحد ..
أن يُفتّقك الصمت ..
ولا شيء يَرْتِقُك سوى الأيام ..
أن تبتسم لتنفي أي تهمة تشير بها أصابع الحزن إليك ..
أن تقرأ لتظل عيناك نحو الأسفل دون أن يبدو ذلك انكسارًا ..
أن تنام مبكرًا ..
لتنسحب دون دون أن يبدو ذلك انعزالًا ..
أن تتأخر على سجادة صلاتك ..
لتصمت طويلًا دون أن يبدو ذلك شرودًا ..
تترقب وجعًا ما ..
سيأتيك على شاكلة فاتورةٍ مؤجلة !”
― ندى ناصر, على متن حقيبة

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen again, and with shame and vulnerability when you see how your illness affected your family, your work, everything left untouched while you struggled to survive. We come back to life thinner, paler, weaker … but as survivors. Survivors who don’t get pats on the back from coworkers who congratulate them on making it. Survivors who wake to more work than before because their friends and family are exhausted from helping them fight a battle they may not even understand. I hope to one day see a sea of people all wearing silver ribbons as a sign that they understand the secret battle, and as a celebration of the victories made each day as we individually pull ourselves up out of our foxholes to see our scars heal, and to remember what the sun looks like.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand.
You know what that feels like?
Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Okay for Now

“She used to cry roughly three times a year. Now she seemed to cry three times before breakfast. Could that be considered progress?”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.”
― Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“المِلَّة ليست بيت أبيك تطردني منها وقتما تشاء”
― سعود السنعوسي, فئران أمي حصة

“إننا لا نشعر في أي يوم من أيام حياتنا بأننا
غير محصنين ضد الألم إلي هذا الحد إلا عندما نحب

فرويد”
― Guillaume Musso, Parce que je t'aime

“نحن لا نتعود يا أبي إلا إذا مات شيء فينا، وتصور حجم ما مات فينا حتي تعودنا على كل ما حولنا.”
― ممدوح عدوان, حيونة الإنسان

“متى احس الإنسان شعورا مضاعفا بحياته، فقد عاش حياة مضاعفة فعلا...”
― يوسف بن عثمان بن محمد الحزيم, قوانين الحياة إياك أن تكسرها

“When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.”
― Nick Lake, In Darkness

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Alice Munro, Too Much Happiness: Stories

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

“Don’t make the same mistakes that everyone else makes. Make wonderful mistakes. Make the kind of mistakes that make people so shocked that they have no other choice but to be a little impressed.”
― Jenny Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

“هُم يرتكبون خطأً. هو يكتب عن الخطأ. آخرون يلومونه على الكتابة!”
― سعود السنعوسي, فئران أمي حصة

“أنا في طريقي لإنقاظ الولد. يريد أن يكون فنانًا. يا فرحة قلبي بالفن و الفنانين!”
― Radwa Ashour, خديجة وسوسن

“All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.”
― Nawal El Saadawi, Woman at Point Zero

“Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“A small fact:
You are going to die....does this worry you?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“And if you looking for a surefire way to turn a comfortable party into a very alcohol-fueled romp through gender politics, bring up feminism.”
― Alida Nugent, You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism

“Family has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Every people.”
― Sylvain Neuvel, Sleeping Giants