Rawan Abdulseed > Rawan's Quotes

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

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

“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

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.”
― Lee Child, 61 Hours

“لا شيء يخيفني أكثر من الارتباط برجل تقليدي بحت، ذوقه رديء في الملابس والكلمات ، رجل بليد لا مشكلة لديه بأن يفوت ولادة طفلنا الأول ، أو ذكرى زواجنا من أجل مباراة فريقه المفضل ، لا يقرأ لا يكتب لا يمارس الرياضة، ليس لديه ما يفعله في وقت فراغه عدا التمدد وحشو معدته بالدهون، يخجل من مناداتي -حبيبتي- ويستبدلها بكلمات خاوية من المشاعر كـ أم العيال أو الاهل.
لا يراني أكثر من امرأه تطبخ له في النهار و تدللله في المساء، ومابين الاثنين أكون -لا شيء- رجل كهذا آمُل أن يكون قد أنقرض ..”
― هنوف الجاسر

“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“In every way that counted, I failed him.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
― George Gissing

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”
― Philippe Ariès

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“... we
do not admire what
we cannot understand.”
― Marianne Moore, Complete Poems

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke