Feras Al Saif > Feras's Quotes

“Nature gives reproductive rights at puberty.
The same oppressors that make it hard to raise kids by
limiting resources, make it hard to make personal choices.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“We all want to think that we’re important to the people who are important to us. But sometimes, our best friend is someone else’s best friend.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride

“People on the streets are dehumanized the same way settlers dehumanized the Indigenous, to steal the land of abundance at gunpoint, to tax the land to the fullest.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Blacks aren't bigger, it's documented in their tribal photos. (The quote that end's anti-Black racism)”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

“My eyes drift down to his junk. I mean, come on, he’s wearing gray sweatpants—I can’t be blamed for noticing his package. Fall is gray sweatpants season, after all.”
― K.M. Moronova, The Fabric of Our Souls

“To overcome the need to be productive, as a lot of productivity is destructive.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“And the ones like me, the mousy nobodies, we don’t always turn out to be the heroes of the tale. Sometimes we have our own dark secrets.”
― Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party

“Time is not money, but a sacred free gift. Priceless.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“I tried to shoot him. In exchange he’d given me two orgasms, so I guess in some ways that counted as a win?”
― Joanna Wylde, Reaper's Stand

“She let a teasing tone enter her voice. 'Is there any emergency for which you are not prepared, Mr Swift?'
'Miss Bowman, if I had enough pockets I could save the world.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring

“The same people that outlawed the practice of Native American Medicine (without a colonizer centric degree), outlawed the traditional practice of healing those that are hurt/ill without expecting anything in return. Free healthcare. The basis of community.”
― San Mateo, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

“Because I remember that girl, my seffi, with her wild hair and her easy smile, and I have been missing her for almost a decade.” Her breath hitched in surprise. “I will make you remember her,” I vowed, “because I can never forget her. No matter how hard I’ve tried.”
― Zoey Draven, Broken by the Horde King

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world.”
― Elly Griffiths, A Dying Fall

“I have a foreboding of America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time–when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all of the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; with our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

And when the dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest-common-denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Even in ruin, there is beauty.”
― Kimber Silver

“The stars sparkled in an inky sky as they drove through the hot summer night—rhinestones scattered across midnight silk. Out here, a person could almost see forever across the flat expanse of farmland. Wide-open spaces revealed little towns miles away, their lights glinting like rubies and pearls. Kansas held a subtle beauty that only a quiet eye could see.”
― Kimber Silver, Broken Rhodes

“Silence cut him to the quick as it breathed a tale he didn’t want to hear.”
― Kimber Silver, Broken Rhodes

“Don't waste time thinking about them. If they walked away from your love, they don't deserve your pain.”
― C.L. Brown

“The oak trees had shed their leaves, revealing the inky thumbprints of crows' nests in the crackle glaze of dark branches.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree

“Ulysses found himself hopelessly adrift within the confines of a yew-hedge maze, the leaf tips of which were lit by a Communion-wafer moon that rested on the black tongue of night.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Fish That Climbed a Tree