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“ومن الأفضل للشعب السوداني أن يمر بتجربة حكم جماعة الهوس الديني. وسوف تكون تجربة مفيدة للغاية. إذ أنها بلا شك ستبين لأبناء هذا الشعب مدى زيف شعارات هذه الجماعة. وسوف تسيطر هذه الجماعة على السودان سياسياً واقتصادياً حتى ولو بالوسائل العسكرية. وسوف يذيقون الشعب الأمرين. وسوف يدخلون البلاد في فتنة تحيل نهارها إلى ليل. وسوف تنتهي فيما بينهم. وسوف يقتلعون من أرض السودان اقتلاعاً.”
― محمود محمد طه

“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“. . . a stiff breeze had claimed Athens, filling bedrooms, rearranging the tops of desks, touching everything and nothing, as if searching for something it no longer recognized.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“adrift in private thoughts, anchored to the world by unfamiliar shadows.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“The love of a
man is like a drop of color into something clear.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Life is over before you get to understand anything and so is probably meaningless”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“to love without fear would be to drown in another person.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“to love without fear would be to drown in another person.
A first mouthful of water; a face disappearing; the sun changing shape, a bright rim, like the edge of a bottle into which she had fallen. Then her body would fill, go limp with gentle heaviness, and drift with the current.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Do we love before we love.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“All she knows is that someone fell, and that everything beautiful began after.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“He stood at a tilt as though tethered to some terrible weight - some moment of his past that simultaneously defined who he was yet denied him life.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Somewhere across the city, among the thousands of thumping hearts, was the one he wanted.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“There was so much he wanted to say, but was unable to think past the syllables of her name that filled him like some delicate music.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Then ------ dies, and everything that she thought or felt vanishes and is gone forever.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Like some overcrowded party, no-one had noticed her arrival, and no-one would notice if she left.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.

I realized I was afraid of living without him.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive, perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to live.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in."- Will Traynor”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“I placed my face so close to his that his features became indistict, and I began to lose myself in them. I stroked his hair, his skin, his brow, with my fingertips, tears sliding unchecked down my cheeks, my nose against his, and all the time he watched me silently, studying me intently as if he were storing each molecule of me away. He was already retreating withdrawing to somewhere I couldn't reach him.
I kissed him, trying to bring him back. I kissed him and let my lips rest against his so that our breath mingled and the tears from my eyes became salt on his skin, and I told myself that, somewhere, tiny particles of him would become tiny particles of me, ingested, swallowed, alive perpetual. I wanted to press every bit of me against him. I wanted to will something into him. I wanted to give him every bit of life I felt and force him to life.
I held him, Will Traynor ex-City whiz kid, ex-stunt diver, sportsman, traveller, lover. I held him close and said nothing, all the while telling him silently that he was loved. Oh, but he was loved.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“You were red,
and you liked me because I was blue,
but you touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky,
and you decided purple just wasn't for you.”
― Halsey

“You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Don't you do that.
Don't you look at what I had for you and call it weak.
Not when you were the one afraid of it.
I stood there with my hands open,
my mouth bruised tender with supplication.
Don't you dare treat me like a victim of my own emotions,
like being moved to my knees by love
was a mistake that I regret.
I will go to my grave with the memory of the bravery in my bones.”
― Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried

“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening . . . Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.”
― Alice Walker, Living by the Word: Essays

“My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium