“I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“With the inevitability of a tongue returning to probe a painful tooth, we come back and back and back again to our fears, sitting to talk them over with the eagerness of a hungry man before a full and steaming plate.”
― Books of Blood, Volume Two
― Books of Blood, Volume Two
“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― The New Life
― The New Life
“أين الأرواح المتشابهة (المتناسخة) التى أستطيع التحدث معها؟ أين البلاد التى أجد فيها الحلم الذى تحدث إلى قلبى؟ أين هؤلاء الذين قرءوا الكتاب أيضاً؟”
― The New Life
― The New Life
Shimaa’s 2025 Year in Books
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