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“when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw”
― Jodi Picoult, House Rules

“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”
― Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

“It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“لحظة واحده من الخوف الحقيقى و الحب الحقيقى بدلا من الحياة الكذب , من المشي بلا سبب والكلام بلا معنى و فتح الأبواب و غلق الادراج و طلوع السلم و الرد على التليفون و انتظار السيارات
و قناع كاذب للحزن و قناع أكذب للضحك لمقابلة اقنعه الاخرين , لحظة واحدة تبعث فيها الأرواح الميته لتلتقى , و لكن كيف تبعث هذه الارواح ؟”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“ليس هناك كتابا أقرأه و لا أستفيد منه شيئا جديدا ، فحتى الكتاب التافه أستفيد من قراءته ، أني تعلمت شيئا جديدا هو ما هي التفاهة ؟ و كيف يكتب الكتاب التافهون ؟ و فيم يفكرون ؟”
― عباس محمود العقاد

“القراءة وحدها هي التي تُعطي الإنسان الواحد أكثر من حياة واحدة؛ لأنها تزيد هذه الحياة عمقاً، وإن كانت لا تطيلها بمقدار الحساب”
― عباس محمود العقاد

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“المهم ألا تيأس من الاستقامة إن وقع منك ذنب .. فقد يكون هو آخر ذنب كُتب عليك”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“ما جدوى كل الشعر الذي قرأته وكل الأدب الذي أدمنته إن كانت لاتستطيع أن تنقل له بالكلمات كيف تحبه ؟”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”
― Charles Chaplin

“فحتى عندما لا نبصر نورا في نهاية النفق يجب أن نؤمن بأن النور لابد أن يظهر ”
― أمين معلوف, موانئ المشرق

“لا تعجب لشيء، إن للحقيقة و جهين، و للناس أيضا”
― Amin Maalouf, Samarkand

“الفن وحده ينقذنا من الجنون”
― غادة السمان

“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
― Margaret Landon

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscrito encontrado em Accra

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.”
― Earl Wilson

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.”
― Earl Wilson

“Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.”
― Earl Wilson

“Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
― Earl Wilson

“أصل الجمال مطلوب، من قال أن الله نهى عن الجمال! هو الله خلق الجمال، في الطبيعة وفي المرأة. فستر هذا الجمال ليس مطلوب”
― أحمد القبانجي

“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”
― Mark Twain

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.”
― Sharon Olds

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”
― Walt Disney