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“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“انگار هر زن عادی جداً معتقد است که نمی‌تواند مرد را به ارزش خود واقف کند، مگر این‌که خودش را به او عرضه کند، چنان کند که انگار صحنه‌ای از یک داستان عاشقانه است. اما این توهم رقت‌انگیز و معصومانه در حقیقت زن را قربانی یک طرفه‌ی تجاوزی روحی می‌کرد.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“اگر این‌طور باشد که ما فقط یک بخش از آن‌چه را زندگی می‌کنیم که در وجود ماست، پس بقیه‌اش چه می‌شود؟”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature

“تنم را بکشم به لب‌هات
می‌سوزم؟
یا آب می‌شوم؟

بگذار برات کتاب بخوانم
بنشین اینجا
کتاب را بگیر توی دست‌هات
ورق بزن
دستم را دورت حلقه می‌کنم
از بالای شانه‌ات
کتاب
نفس می‌کشم
لای موهات
ورق بزن.

اگر توی گوش‌ت گفتم
دوستت دارم
و فرار کردم چی؟
از پله‌های کودکی
بالا می‌آیم
تاب می‌خوری در تنهایی من
عاشقت می‌شوم
نگاهت مرا مرد می‌کند.

دلتنگی‌ام را
به کی بگویم وقتی نیستی؟
تا کجا راه بروم تا تمام شوم؟
مثل یک جاده
...
نیستی که!
من هم عادت نمی‌کنم
آقای من!
همین.

کتاب را بالا بگیر ببینم
گاهی هم برگرد و بوسم کن.
حواست به داستان هست؟
نه
بیا از اول شروع کنیم.
دیدی؟
دیدی باز عاشقت شدم؟”
― عباس معروفی

“You lie,” he said. “All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it … though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“She narrowed her eyes. “What is our heart’s desire?”

“Vengeance.” His voice was soft, as if he were afraid that someone might be listening. “Justice.” Prince Doran pressed the onyx dragon into her palm with his swollen, gouty fingers, and whispered, “Fire and blood.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“Men have scars, women mysteries.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“برای زنانی که عاشق می‌شوند
دلتنگی از نان شب واجب‌تر است
دست و دل‌شان به کار نمی‌رود
گوشه‌گیر می‌شوند
شمعدانی‌های نقره را برق می‌اندازند
و آن‌گاه دل‌شان را کنج دیوار به میخی می‌آویزند.”
― جواد گنجعلی, صدای محزون موزیک در هدفن

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

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

“This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?"
And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Every kid got a turtle some time or other. Nobody can't keep a turtle though. They work at it and work at it, and at last one day they get out and away they go--off somewheres. It's like me.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”
― Carlos Castaneda

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman

“Let our scars fall in love.”
― Galway Kinnell

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in fight, searching the skies for dreams.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World