Nadira > Nadira's Quotes

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

“The Prophet had both perfection of features and perfection of manners. The impression of them on people can be deduced by the bliss that overwhelmed their hearts and filled them with dignity.”
― Safiur-Rahman Mubarakpuri, The Sealed Nectar | Biography of Prophet Muhammad

“Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.”
― Chitra Divakaruni

“I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sister of My Heart

“In suffering we find our truest selves.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Growing older does not seem to make you more certain, Nella thinks. It simply presents you with more reasons for doubt.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“A lifetime isn't enough to know how a person will behave.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“Here she is a puppet, a vessel for others to pour their speech. And it is not a man she has married, but a world.”
― Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me. Do you think that’s crazy?
“No,” I said, shaking my head, “I’d guess your method works quite well.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end. ”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“I don’t know how to put it, but I just can’t get it through my head that here and now is really here and now. Or that I am really me. It doesn’t quite hit home. It’s always this way. Only much later on does it ever come together. For the last ten years, it’s been like this.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“To get irritated is to lose our way in life.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“You concentrate on waiting for someone and after a certain time it hardly matters what happens anymore. It could be five years or ten years or one month. It's all the same.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye