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“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“قالت لي وقد أَمْعَنْتُ ما أَمْعنْتْ
يا أيها الباكي وراءَ السورِ، أحمقُ أَنْتْ؟
أَجُنِنْتْ؟
لا تبكِ عينُكَ أيها المنسيُّ من متنِ الكتابْ
لا تبكِ عينُكَ أيها العَرَبِيُّ واعلمْ أنَّهُ
في القدسِ من في القدسِ لكنْ
لا أَرَى في القدسِ إلا أَنْتْ”
― تميم البرغوثي, في القدس

“تعـانــقَ المــــوتُ فيهم والحيـــاة ُ كما
تعـانقتْ في الحـروفِ الــــلامُ والألِــفُ”
― تميم البرغوثي, مقام عراق

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Hello, Harry" said George, beaming at him. "We thought we heard your dulcet tones."
"You don't want to bottle up your anger like that, Harry, let it all out," said Fred, also beaming. "There might be a couple of people fifty miles away who didn't hear you.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.”
― Guy de Maupassant , Une vie

“كلام الجرائد لا ينفع يا بني ، فهم أولئك الذين يكتبون في الجرائد يجلسون في مقاعد مريحة وفي غرف واسعة فيها صور وفيها مدفأة ثم يكتبون عن فلسطين وعن حرب فلسطين، وهم لم يسمعوا طلقة واحدة في حياتهم كلها، ولو سمعوا اذن، لهربوا الى حيث لا ادري. يا بني فلسطين ضاعت لسبب بسيط جداً، كانوا يريدون منا -نحن الجنود- أن نتصرف على طريقة واحدة، أن ننهض إذا قالوا انهض، و أن ننام إذا قالوا نم، و أن نتحمس ساعة يريدون منا أن نتحمس، و أن نهرب ساعة يريدوننا أن نهرب.. وهكذا إلى أن وقعت المأساة، و هم أنفسهم لا يعرفون متى وقعت!”
― غسان كنفاني, أرض البرتقال الحزين

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

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

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“تُرى : حين أفقأ عينيك
ثم أثبت جوهرتين مكانهما
هل ترى ؟
هي أشياءَ لا تُشترى.”
― أمل دنقل

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I usually get distracted when I’m on the internet. I open one or two tabs to look something up for school but it turns out that I open more than 30 tabs, most of them irrelevant to my research. It’s funny because it reminds me of getting to know people in my life. I have a goal and spending time with too many people might delay me from achieving it. I see it as if people were internet browser tabs.”
― Abdullah Abu Snaineh, Armband of Being

“He was a book, and he was holding his final pages, and he wanted to get to the end to find out how it went, and he didn't want it to be over.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?"

"Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“الناس ثلاثة اموات

فى اوطانى
والميت معناه قتيل
قسم يقتله اصحاب الفيل
والثانى تقتله اسرائيل
والثالث تقتله عربائيل
وهى بلاد
تمتد من الكعبة حتى النيل
والله اشتقنا للموت بلا تنكيل
والله اشتقنا
واشتقنا
ثم اشتقنا
انقذنا يا عزرائيل”
― أحمد مطر, لافتات 3

“ويكثر قول الشعر في الحرب لا الهوى..
لأن الهوى لو قيس بالحرب جارح
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وفي كل حرب ثم حق وباطل..
وفي الحب لا هذا ولا ذاك واضح
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فإن قال لا أهوى فليس بصادق..
وإن قال أهوى أخجلته المذابح
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وفي شعره معنى فصيح وغامض..
وفي صدره قلب مقيم ونازح
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وشعب مقيم في خيام كأنها..
خيال من الشعر القديم يراوح
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فقف عند رسم ما ترحل أهله..
ولكنه رسم لحزنك صالح
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وما ضره هجر العشيرة إنما..
تقاعسها والموت غاد ورائح
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إذا صار خذلان الأحبة دأبنا..
فمن عاش خسران ومن مات رابح
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وإن كان هذا صلحنا وسلامنا..
فأخزى إلهي بعدها من يصالح”
― تميم البرغوثي

“She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you'll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won't matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows