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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #2
    Virginia Woolf
    “Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #3
    Arthur Golden
    “Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?”
    Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

  • #4
    Yann Martel
    “I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #5
    Yann Martel
    “ know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #6
    Susanna Kaysen
    “Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad half hour standing on a roof: We've all had those. And somewhat more dangerous things, like putting a gun in your mouth. But you put it there, you taste it, it's cold and greasy, your finger is on the trigger, and you find that a whole world lies between this moment and the moment you've been planning, when you'll pull the trigger. That world defeats you. You put the gun back in the drawer. You'll have to find another way.

    What was that moment like for her? The moment she lit the match. Had she already tried roofs and guns and aspirins? Or was it just an inspiration?

    I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin. It was my task: my job for the day. I lined them up on my desk and took them one by one, counting. But it's not the same as what she did. I could have stopped, at ten, or at thirty. And I could have done what I did do, which was go onto the street and faint. Fifty aspirin is a lot of aspirin, but going onto the street and fainting is like putting the gun back in the drawer.

    She lit the match.”
    Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

  • #7
    Bill Maher
    “Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”
    Bill Maher

  • #8
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #9
    Virginia Woolf
    “For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what one felt.”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #10
    Virginia Woolf
    “for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;”
    Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

  • #11
    Virginia Woolf
    “All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #12
    Virginia Woolf
    “I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement...”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a loneliness in this world so great
    that you can see it in the slow movement of
    the hands of a clock.

    people so tired
    mutilated
    either by love or no love.

    people just are not good to each other
    one on one.

    the rich are not good to the rich
    the poor are not good to the poor.

    we are afraid.

    our educational system tells us
    that we can all be
    big-ass winners.

    it hasn't told us
    about the gutters
    or the suicides.

    or the terror of one person
    aching in one place
    alone

    untouched
    unspoken to

    watering a plant.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #14
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #15
    Colette
    “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
    Colette

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

  • #17
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Deep in earth my love is lying
    And I must weep alone.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #18
    عزالدين شكري فشير
    “.إن الحياد جريمة”
    عزالدين شكري فشير, باب الخروج: رسالة علي المفعمة ببهجة غير متوقعة

  • #19
    John Steinbeck
    “The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #21
    Katharine Hepburn
    “We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.”
    Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

  • #22
    Robert Frost
    “These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.”
    Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

  • #23
    Sylvia Beach
    “I am a citizen of the world.”
    Sylvia Beach

  • #24
    بهاء طاهر
    “المشكلة هي أنت بالضبط! لا ينفع في هذه الدنيا أن تكون نصف طيب ونصف شرير. نصف وطني ونصف خائن, نصف شجاع ونصف جبان. نصف مؤمن ونصف عاشق. دائما في منتصف شيء ما.”
    بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

  • #25
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of...”
    Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

  • #26
    John Green
    “The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #27
    Anna Quindlen
    “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
    Anna Quindlen

  • #28
    غسان كنفاني
    “إن الصمت هو صراخ من النوع نفسه. أكثر عمقاً، وأكثر لياقةً بكرامة الإنسان”
    غسان كنفاني

  • #29
    John Green
    “That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #30
    John Green
    “I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary?”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars



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