Shimaa

“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.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”
― Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

“I felt even annoyed at discovering in myself a sensation of freedom as if I had been freed from something by his death.”
― James Joyce, Dubliners