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“إن من حكمة الله علينا أن خلق لنا الأضداد، فالشيء لا يمكن معرفته إلا بمعرفة نقيضه، فالنور لا يُعرف إلا بالظلام، والوجود لا يُعرف إلا بالعدم، والخير لا يُعرف إلا بالشر، والصحة لا تُعرف إلا بالمرض.”
― سلطان موسى الموسى, أقوم قيلا

“الله للجميع، ولا يحق لأحد مصادرة حق أي مخلوق مهما بلغ عصيانه وطغيانه في مناجاة ربه أو دعائه.
فطالما أن الله استاجب دعاء إبليس فليس هنالك أي شخص بمعزل عن الدعاء والإجابة.”
― سلطان موسى الموسى, أقوم قيلا

“جميعنا قد جربنا الموت من قبل .. فلا تقلق ..!”
― سلطان موسى الموسى, أقوم قيلا

“أنا شخصيا لا أصف من تختلف آراؤه مع تقدم الأيام "بالمتناقض" .. بل إني أعلم جيدا بأنه بحث وتأمل أكثر فوجد أن ما يلبي احتياج عقله في الفهم أمر مغاير لما كان يعتقده في الماضي”
― سلطان موسى الموسى, أقوم قيلا

“فأنا أقول قيلا .. وأنت تقول قيلا .. ليبقى كلام الله أقوم قيلا ..!”
― سلطان موسى الموسى, أقوم قيلا

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

“When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”
― Anzia Yezierska

“Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“ ‘Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are’ is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread.”
― François Mauriac

“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”
― Markus Zusak

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.”
― Sherman Alexie

“So you want to be a writer


if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.

unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.

if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.

if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.

if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.

if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.

if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.

if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.

don’t be like so many writers,
don’t be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don’t be dull and boring and
pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.

unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don’t do it.

unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.

when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.

there is no other way.

and there never was.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”
― Bill Cosby

“إن الذاكرة هي الأسوأ فيما يتعلق بالتعافي”
― توني موريسون

“ما أقسى أن نظل نحبهم ونحن نعلم بأنهم ليسوا لنا ، هم في هالة واحدة مع غيرنا ، ونحن خارجها غير مصرح لنا بالدخول !”
― لميس يوسف, حجر ورقة مقص

“إذا لم يكن للحياة معنى فلم لا نخلق لها معنى؟!”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Sugar Street

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.”
― Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993

“If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either”
― James M. Cain

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
― Michael Crichton

“Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame