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  • #1
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #2
    Alan Bennett
    “What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”
    Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

  • #3
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

  • #4
    Yann Martel
    “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
    Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  • #5
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

  • #6
    Veronica Roth
    “...there is power in self-sacrifice.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #7
    Veronica Roth
    “Lies require commitment.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #8
    Veronica Roth
    “His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #9
    Agatha Christie
    “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”
    Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

  • #10
    China Miéville
    “A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
    China Miéville, King Rat

  • #11
    هيفاء بيطار
    “لا أملك سوى مراقبة حياة الناس ، إنهم أحياء ، لكن ليس فيهم مس من عبقرية ، ينتابني غثيان من محدوديتهم ”
    هيفاء بيطار, غروب وكتابة

  • #12
    محمد المنسي قنديل
    “لقد حاولت أن لا أؤذي أحدًا .. لكن الزمان كان مؤذيًا لنا جميعًا.”
    محمد المنسي قنديل, قمر على سمرقند

  • #13
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #14
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.”
    Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

  • #15
    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
    Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins

  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “beware those quick to praise
    for they need praise in return
    beware those who are quick to censor
    they are afraid of what they do not know
    beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone
    beware the average man the average woman
    beware their love, their love is average
    seeks average”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #17
    Desmond Tutu
    “Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
    Desmond Tutu

  • #18
    بول شاؤول
    “كان ولداً رقيقاً كخيط البكرة، تخلط أمه بينه وبين البيجاما أحياناً، وبينه وبين القميص أحياناً أخرى. البيجاما تلبسها بيجاما أخرى، وهو، تعلّقه في الخزانة، القميص ترسله إلى المدرسة، وهو، ترسله إلى المصبغة.

    بول شاوول

  • #19
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.”
    P.G. Wodehouse, Mostly Sally

  • #20
    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts

  • #21
    Richelle Mead
    “You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”
    Richelle Mead, Frostbite

  • #22
    Bertrand Russell
    “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
    Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

  • #23
    Haruki Murakami
    “The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.”
    Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

  • #24
    Michael Cunningham
    “The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.”
    Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

  • #25
    Margaret Atwood
    “Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
    Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

  • #26
    Joan Didion
    “Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
    Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

  • #27
    Clarice Lispector
    “I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
    Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

  • #28
    “Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #29
    Philip K. Dick
    “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
    Philip K. Dick, VALIS

  • #30
    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
    Jonathan Safran Foer



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