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“Quand on ne trouve pas la solution à son malheur, on lui cherche un coupable.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“Nous, les Arabes, ne sommes pas paresseux. Nous prenons seulement le temps de vivre. Ce qui n'est pas le cas des Occidentaux. Pour eux, le temps, c'est de l'argent.
Pour nous, le temps ça n'a pas de prix. Un verre de thé suffit à notre bonheur, alors qu'aucun bonheur ne leur suffit. Toute la différence est là.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”
― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit

“لا تجعلي المسلمين ينفرونك من الإسلام فتطبيقهم لتعاليمه متفاوت ..لكن انظري في خلق رسول الإسلام وحده ضمن كل البشر خلقه القرآن.”
― خولة حمدي, في قلبي أنثى عبرية

“فإنني أحمل ذاكرتي على كفي.تلك اللعنة ظلت ترافقني.. لعلني لم أرزق نعمة النسيان مثل كل البشر.”
― خولة حمدي, في قلبي أنثى عبرية

“رفعت رأسها ببطء في اتجاهه، فالتقت بعينين ثاقبتين تحدقان فيها بثقة وتمعن. خفضت عينيها بسرعة وقد سرت في جسدها رجفة غريبة. قليل الأدب! تمتمت في سرها في استياء. كم هو هادئ وواثق من نفسه. وفوق هذا يتأملها بوقاحة دون أن يراعي وجود والده ووالدها معهما في الغرفة! كانت تجهل كل شيء عن الرؤية الشرعية لدى المسلمين.”
― خولة حمدي, في قلبي أنثى عبرية

“يا رب اعلم أن هذا امتحانك لصبري وثباتي لكنني أسألك ألا تطفئ كل الشموع في وجهي يا الله اترك لي بصيص أمل أعيش به باقي أيامي فإنني قد وهنت.”
― خولة حمدي, في قلبي أنثى عبرية

“وحين كانت شقيقته سماح تلح عليه حتى يصف لها زوجة أحلامه، كان يقول في شيء من المداعبة: هي امرأة بقلب رجل، لديها من القوة والحزم ورباطة الجأش بقدر الرقة والحنان والنعومة. تحمل هم الإسلام والأمة في قلبها أكثر من الموضة ونوع السيارة والمنزل ذي الحديقة والمسبح. لا يهمها الآخرون وماذا يقولون.”
― خولة حمدي, في قلبي أنثى عبرية

“انحبست أنفاسها وهي تتفرس في ملامحه ابتسامة هادئة ابتسامة لمحتها لمرة واحدة وظلت محفورة في ذاكرتها وتزورها في أحلام اليقظة والمنام.”
― خولة حمدي, في قلبي أنثى عبرية

“أعلمُ أني لن أكونَ قويةً على امتدادِ الطريق.لذلكَ أريدكَ أن تأخذَ بيدي وتردني إلى الصواب.أرجوك،كُن معي لنمضي معاً إلى آخرِ المشوار.”
― خولة حمدي, في قلبي أنثى عبرية

“I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I heard a story about her once,' said James. 'She was interviewing a psychopath. She showed him a picture of a frightened face and asked him to identify the emotion. He said he didn't know what the emotion was but it was the face people pulled just before he killed them.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“Ask a victim to look at the positive things and she’ll say, ‘I can’t. My eyes are swollen,”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“At the end of our conversation she (Martha Stout) turned to address you, the reader. She said if you're beginning to feel worried that you may be a psychopath, if you recognize some of those traits in yourself, if you're feeling a creeping anxiety about it, that means you are not one.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“Psychopaths [make] the world go around...society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness...I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, mis-shapen society.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“That's an incredibly depressing thought," I said "that if you're in a room and at one end lies madness and at the other end lies sanity it is human nature to veer towards the madness end.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“Trying to prove you’re not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you’re not mentally ill,’ said Tony.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test

“People who are normal (i.e., sane, sensible) don’t try to open lines of communication with total strangers by writing them a series of disjointed, weird, cryptic messages.”
― Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist