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“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.”
― Woody Allen

“افتادن، هیچ شکوهی ندارد. آنگاه که جانی از زیر ضربه ها بدربردی، تازه هراس آغاز می شود. جویده شده ای. جای جای زخم بیم در تو بافته می شود. احساس اینکه نتوانی برخیزی! احساس دهشتناک. اگر نتوانی برخیزی؟! بیم فردا. این تو را می کُشد. با این همه برمی خیزی. نیمه خیز می شوی و برمی خیزی. اما همان دم که در برخاستنی ترس این داری که نتوانی بایستی. به دشواری می ایستی، اما براه افتادن دشواری تازه ایست. یک گام و دو گام. پاها، پاهای تو نیستند. می لرزند. ناچار و نومید قدم برمی داری. در تو ستونی فرو ریخته است.”
― محمود دولت‌آبادی, کلیدر: دوره ۱۰ جلدی

“هیچ شکنجه ای برای یک لحظه تحمل ناپذیر نیست. اگر فقط اقتدار لحظه می بود و بس، اگر "همین حالا" بود، اگر فقط "همین حالا" چه رازها که در دل خاک مدفون نمی شد. اگر فقط "همین حالا" بود و نه بعد، هیچ کس جلاد دیگری نبود. ... این گذشته است که شب می خزد زیر شمدت. پشت می کنی می بینی روبروی توست. سر در بالش فرو می کنی می بینی میان بالش توست. مثل سایه است و از آن بدتر. سایه، نور که نباشد، دیگر نیست. اما "گذشته" در خموشی و ظلمت با توست ... ”
― رضا قاسمی, همنوایی شبانه ارکستر چوبها

“How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.”
― Chris Colfer

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”
― Laurence J. Peter

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?”
― Chris Rock

“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Why did you betray your own heart Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. ... You loved me - then what right had you to leave me? Because ... nothing God or satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - oh God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave? [...] I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?”
― Emily Brontë

“You only grow when you are alone.”
― Paul Newman

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”
― Judy Blume

“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
― William Shakespeare

“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.”
― Robert Frost