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“Once upon a time, there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered, and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword, a pebble could be a diamond, a tree, a castle. Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house across the field, from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was queen and he was king. In the autumn light her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls, and when the sky grew dark, they parted with leaves in their hair.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”
― Andrew Smith

“Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
― Adolf Hitler

“جای مردان سیاست بنشانید درخت / تا هوا تازه شود”
― سهراب سپهری

“چرا گرفته دلت
مثل آنکه تنهایی
چقدر هم تنها
خیال می کنم
دچار آن رگ پنهان رنگ ها هستی
دچار یعنی عاشق”
― سهراب سپهری / Sohrab Sepehri, مسافر - هشت کتاب

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“روزی خواهم آمد،و پیامی خواهم آورد
در رگها ،نور خواهم ریخت.
و صدا خواهم در داد:ای سبدهاتان پر خواب!سیب آوردم
سیب سرخ خورشید”
― سهراب سپهری, گزیده یی از اشعار سهراب

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
― Carl Sagan

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 5”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“I'm not sure what I am. I just know there's something dark in me. I hide it. I certainly don't talk about it, but it's there always, this Dark Passenger. And when he's driving, I feel alive, half sick with the thrill of complete wrongness. I don't fight him, I don't want to. He's all I've got. Nothing else could love me, not even... especially not me. Or is that just a lie the Dark Passenger tells me? Because lately there are these moments when I feel connected to something else... someone. It's like the mask is slipping and things... people... who never mattered before are suddenly starting to matter. It scares the hell out of me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“I did not like this feeling of having feelings.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Me, feeling. What a concept.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me.
Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am.
What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can't save myself.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby