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“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter.”
― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“الفرح الذي يثقله واجب تعويض أفراح أخرى هو فرح سريع الزوال.”
― ميلان كونديرا, Laughable Loves

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“love is just chemicals and coincidence.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“...all teenagers do this. All teenagers separate from their parents. To grow up is to grow apart.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“But time and distance are love’s natural enemies.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“Hearts don't break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“يوجد نوع واحد من القذارة لا يمكن تطهيرها بالماء النقي، وهو لوثة الكراهية والتعصب التي تلوّث الروح”
― Elif Safak

“إذا أراد المرء أن يغيِّر الطريقة التي يعامله فيها الناس، فيجب عليه أولاً أن يغيِّر الطريقة التي يعامل فيها نفسه، وإذا لم يتعَّم كيف يحب نفسه حبًا صادقًا كاملاً فلا توجد وسيلة يمكنه فيها أن يحب. لكنه عندما يبلغ تلك المرحلة سيشكر كل شوكة يلقيها عليه الآخرون، فهذا يعني أن الورود ستنهمر قريبًا.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“وكما يحتاج الصلصال إلي حرارة عالية ليشتد ّفالحب لا يكتمل إلا بالألم.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“توجد مرحلة تخذلنا اللغة بعدها”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“وعندما تلج دائرة الحب، تكون اللغة التي نعرفها قد عفَّى عليها الزمان فالشيء الذي لا يمكن التعبير عنه بالكلمات لا يمكن إدراكه إلا بالصمت.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Do not go with the flow. Be the flow.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.”
― Elif Şafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“لو عرفوا ان لديك قلبا من الزجاج لكسروه”
― Elif Shafak, Honor

“يقال ان القهوة مثل الحب، كلما صبرت عليها اكثر ازداد طعمها حلاوة”
― Elif Shafak, Honor

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.”
― Deborah Smith, The Crossroads Cafe

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“You may be poor, but the one thing nobody can take away from you is the freedom to fuck up your life whatever way you want to.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person all that much, if you were busy with other things.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom