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“غيري قد يتحدث عن الجذور تلك ليست مفرداتي فأنا لا احب كلمة "جذور" , واقله صورتها.
فالجذور تتوارى في التربة ,تتلوى في الوحل تنمو في الظلمات ؛تبقى الشجرة أسيرة , منذ ولادتها , و تغذيتها لقاء ابتزاز :"لو تحررتِ تموتين !" .”
― نهلة بيضون , Orígenes

“الجذور تتوارى في التربة, تتلوى في الوحل, تنمو في الظلمات, تُبقي الشجرة أسيرة منذ ولادتها, وتُغذيها لقاء ابتزاز: لو تحررتِ تموتين. ترضخ الأشجار لها لأنها بحاجة إلى جذورها, بعكس البشر, إننا نتنفس النور, و نطمع بالسماء, ومتى غصنا في التربة فلنتعفن.”
― أمين معلوف, بدايات

“وأقدامنا إنما تصلح للسير. لا تهمنا سوى الدروب. هي تسيّرنا (..) تعدنا، تحملنا، تقذفنا، ثم تتخلى عنا. فننفق -كما ولدنا- على حافة طريق لم نخترها أصلًا”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“مثلنا (الدروب) لها أصل. أصل وهمي، فالطريق ليست لها بداية حقًا، قبل المنعطف الأول، هناك في الخلف، ثمة منعطف آخر، ثم آخر.أصل هارب لأن كل تقاطع انضمت إليه دروب أخرىآتية من بدايات أخرى”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“أعتزم أن أسحب من هذه الصورة الأكثر اصفراراً نسخة لتأطيرها وتعليقها على حائط غرفتي. إنها توحي برغد العيش الذي قلما ينسب إلى الأسلاف الراحلين.
كان هؤلاء يتلقون من الحياة أقل مما نتلقاه منها، ولكنهم يتوقعون منها أقل بكثير كذلك، ويسعون أقل منا للسيطرة على الغد. نحن الأجيال المتعجرفة التي تؤمن بأنها موعودة بدوام السعادة منذ لحظة الولادة - موعودة؟ من وعدها يا ترى؟”
― أمين معلوف, Orígenes

“نحن لا نكافئ الآخرين بغفراننا ذنوبهم، نحن نكافئ أنفسنا، ونتطهر من الداخل.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“ينضج واحدنا كحبة التمر، ظاهرها ليِّن ونواتها أقسى من أن تلين”
― سعود السنعوسي, فئران أمي حصة

“Love can destroy you.
Love can erase you.
Love can heal you.
Love can reinvent you,
And, if you are lucky enough,
Love can make you whole again.

That's what Cathy has done to me.”
― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

“Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.”
― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

“There's no room for selfishness when you have a defenseless human being depending on you.”
― Mia Asher, Arsen: A Broken Love Story

“If the thought of losing someone doesn’t scare the shit out of you, then it’s not love.”
― Penelope Ward, My Skylar

“That’s the thing about true love. It can rise from the ashes because at its source, it’s indestructible. Layers can be stripped away and lost, but if you’re lucky enough to find them again and put them back together, the end result is stronger than ever.”
― Penelope Ward, My Skylar

“اللجوء إلى الإيمان، بحد ذاته، يحتاج إلى.. إيمان..”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“...You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends." His fingers curl around mine. "That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no one's letting me in on the secret.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing. Your body knows precisely how to shape itself around the ache, the hollowness that wants to be filled”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“...The thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving zero fucks whether it’ll ever see it. On the day I die, it’ll be calculating what to have for dinner as it bombards itself with pain signals from my amputated legs or my clocked-out heart.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“That’s how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they’ll never see. But right then I was too stuck in the moment, in the visceral pleasure of it all.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

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

“Nobody knows how to be a grown-up. We're all just pretending for each other.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“I leaned back on my palms, looking at the Milky Way spilling in modest grandeur across the sky. A fountain of stars frothing over, surrounded by a mist of stardust. It looked like raw magic, like the glimmer I’d spy in a shadowy corner where the sun skimmed off invisible particles, reminding me there was a whole hidden world tucked inside this ordinary one. And it was up there every night, offering its mute beauty while we sat here with our heads down, tragically terrestrial.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Somewhere in the universe, two hearts reached out and connected.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“Statistically, we're doomed.
Statistically, everyone is doomed.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars