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#1

“الأعياد دوّارة ... عيد ٌ لك وعيد ٌ عليك

ان الذين يحتفـلون اليوم بالحب قـد يأتي العيد القادم وقد افترقوا

والذين يبكون اليوم لوعة وحدتهم قد يكونون اطفال الحب المدللين في الاعياد القادمة”
― أحلام مستغانمي, الأسود يليق بك

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#2

“I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

tags: love

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#3

“I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

tags: adam, love

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#4

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears.

We are blessed.

Let them all go.

The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me.

Moments.

All gathering towards this one.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

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#5

“Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so desperately that it wrecks your insides, you say their name over and over until you conjure then. It's called sympathetic magic and you just have to believe in it to make it work.”
― Jenny Downham, You Against Me

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#6

“I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means.”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

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#7

“when I was four I almost fell down the shaft of a tin mine and when I was five the car rolled over on the motorway and when I was seven we went on holiday and the gas ring blew out in the caravan and nobody noticed

I've been dying all my life”
― Jenny Downham, Before I Die

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#8

“As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart. ”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

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#9

“I don't mind summer rain. In fact I like it. It's my favourite sort.' 'Your favourite sort of rain?' said Thea. I remember that she was frowning, and pondering these words, and then she announced: 'Well, I like the rain before it falls.”
― Jonathan Coe, The Rain Before it Falls

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#10

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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#11

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#12

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

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#13

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

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#14

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

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#15

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
― Stephen King

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#16

“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
― Stephen King

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#17

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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#18

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

tags: books, guns

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#19

“Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.”
― Stephen King

tags: horror, vampire

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#20

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#21

“The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship, humor, inspirational, only-one

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#22

“Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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#23

“It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

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#24

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: being-someone-else, being-someone-else-you-are-not, hating-yourself, hiding, humanity, inspirational, lying, self-acceptance, self-hatred, shame, trying-to-be-like-someone-else

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#25

“It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

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#26

“Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

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#27

“He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: after-death, anger, bitter, sadness, the-ones-we-leave-behind

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#28

“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

tags: casual-vacancy, choice, decisions

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#29

“He dreamed of London and of a life that mattered.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

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#30

“She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.”
― J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy

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