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“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

“Say something," demanded Fancie. "Why don't you say something?"
"What can I say?"
"Say that I'm young-that I'll get over it. Go ahead and say it. Go ahead and lie."
"I know that's what people say-you'll get over it. I'd say it too. But I know it's not true. Oh, you'll be happy again, never fear. But you won't forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.”
― Betty Smith

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
― Suzy Kassem

“Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask ourselves this before we share: "Who has earned the right to hear my story?" If we have one or two people in our lives who can sit with us and hold space for our shame stories, and love us for our strengths and struggles, we are incredibly lucky. If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”
― Brené Brown

“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked.”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

“ومن الحماقة الحمقاء والجهالة الجهلاء أن يحاول محاول إحصاء الأيام والليالي وهي تتابع ويقفو بعضها بعضا، لا يدري أحد متى ابتدأت ولا يعلم أحد متى تنتهي.. فليس إلى إحصاء هذه الحوادث من سبيل حين تحدث لفرد واحد، فكيف بها حين تحدث لأسرة كبيرة أو صغيرة، وكيف بها حين تحدث لمدينة من المدن أو إقليم من الأقاليم أو جيل من أجيال الناس! فهي متنوعة كثيرة التنوع، مختلفة عظيمة الاختلاف، يعظم بعضها ويجل خطره حتى يصبح له في حياة الفرد والجماعة أبعد الأثر. ويهون بعضها ويدق شأنه حتى لا يحفل به حافل ولا يلتفت إليه ملتفت، وهو مع ذلك خيط مهما يكن دقيقاً هين الشأن فله مكانه ذو الخطر في هذا النسيج الذي ينسجه مر الأيام وكــــر الليالي والذي نسميه الحياة.. فالخير أن نطوي من ذلك كله ما يجب أن يطوى، وألا نقف من ذلك كله إلا عند ما يستحق أن نقف عنده ونفكر فيه... ونحن مع ذلك لا نحسن التفريق بين الحادثة ذات الأثر البعيد والحادثة التي ليس لها أثر قريب أو بعيد، وإنما نحن نقدر الأيام والحوادث كما نستطيع وكما يصور لنا العقل والخيل. فأما تقديرها كما ينبغي أن تقدر، وتصويرها كما يجب أن تصور فذلك شيء أكاد أعتقد أنه أبعد منالاً من أن يبلغه طمع الطامعين وطموح الطامحين.....”
― طه حسين

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
― Juliette Lewis

“Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.”
― Ahmad Al-Tifashi, The Delight of Hearts: Or What You Will Not Find in Any Book

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.”
― Linus Pauling

“The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer”
― L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz

“people go but how they left always stays”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“i don’t know what living a balanced life feels like
when i am sad
i don’t cry i pour
when i am happy
i don’t smile i glow
when i am angry
i don’t yell i burn
the good thing about
feeling in extremes
is when i love
i give them wings
but perhaps
that isn't
such a good thing
cause they always
tend to leave and
you should see me
when my heart is broken
i don't grieve
i shatter”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“The American Negro has the great advantage of having never believed the collection of myths to which white Americans cling: that their ancestors were all freedom-loving heroes, that they were born in the greatest country the world has ever seen, or that Americans are invincible in battle and wise in peace, that Americans have always dealt honorably with Mexicans and Indians and all other neighbors or inferiors, that American men are the world's most direct and virile, that American women are pure. Negroes know far more about white Americans than that; it can almost be said, in fact, that they know about white Americans what parents—or, anyway, mothers—know about their children, and that they very often regard white Americans that way. And perhaps this attitude, held in spite of what they know and have endured, helps to explain why Negroes, on the whole, and until lately, have allowed themselves to feel so little hatred. The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“I pondered on this desert hospitality and, compared it with our own. I remembered other encampments where I had slept, small tents on which I had happened in the Syrian desert and where I had spent the night. Gaunt men in rags and hungry-looking children had greeted me, and bade me welcome with the sonorous phrases of the desert. Later they had set a great dish before me, rice heaped round a sheep which they had slaughtered, over which my host poured liquid golden butter until it flowed down on to the sand; and when I protested, saying 'Enough! Enough!', had answered that I was a hundred times welcome. Their lavish hospitality had always made me uncomfortable, for I had known that as a result of it they would go hungry for days. Yet when I left them they had almost convinced me that I had done them a kindness by staying with them”
― Wilfred Thesiger, Arabian Sands

“Making God a man is the consolation prize that our forefathers gave themselves for not being the ones who were each blessed with a vagina.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact as if it were common knowledge: the traditional design of most patriarchal buildings of worship imitates the female body. Thus, there is an outer and inner entrance, labia majora and labia minora; a central vaginal aisle toward the altar; two curved ovarian structures on either side; and then in the sacred center, the altar or womb, where the miracle takes place - where males gives birth.
Though this comparison was new to to me, it struck home like a rock down a well. Of course, I thought. The central ceremony of patriarchal religions is one in which men take over the yoni-power of creation by giving birth symbolically. No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin - because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life. No wonder the male priesthood tries to keep women away from the altar, just as women are kept away from control of our own powers of reproduction. Symbolic or real, it's all devoted to controlling the power that resides in the female body.”
― Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues

“This constant reference to genius is another characteristic of the pseudo-scholar. He loves mentioning genius, because the sound of the word exempts him from discovering its meaning.”
― E.M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

“فمصر بدون حضور ونفوذ ونشاط مثقَّفيها ومُتعلِّميها ليست إلا واديًا يعجُّ بالفقر والشُّحِّ المائي والتكدُّس السكاني والعصبية الطائفية، وشعبًا غالبيَّتُه من بسطاء القوم، الذين لا صوت لهم ولا ناظِمَ لحركاتهم وطموحاتهم”
― Mohamed Naeem محمد نعيم, تاريخ العصامية والجربعة: تأملات نقدية في الاجتماع السياسي الحديث

“ابتسار الجمهورية المصرية وإرجاء إتمام مقوِّماتها كان -ولا يزال- هو المصدر الأعمق لكل أزمات الشرعية، وسببًا في سيادة الطغيان الذي يطاردنا جيلًا وراء جيل”
― Mohamed Naeem محمد نعيم, تاريخ العصامية والجربعة: تأملات نقدية في الاجتماع السياسي الحديث