Ema

“Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he brandished the pinstriped trousers.

'I'm not putting them on,' said old Archie in indignation. 'I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“هل تعلم ذلك الشعور المحبط الذي يراودك عقب الانتهاء من قراءة رواية جيدة ؟ حين تصطدم بالواقع من جديد ، و تدرك أن مشاكلك مازالت كما هي ، و أن الأبطال لم يخرجوا من الرواية ليجعلوا من العالم مكانا أفضل...
لسبب كهذا أجد أن التعود علي الواقع مهما بدا مؤلما لكنه أفضل الحلول ، هكذا لن نشعر بالفارق بين الجنة و الجحيم ، ببساطة لأننا لم نر الجنة يوما...”
― حسني محمد الشحات

“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.

But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. 'Love is not consolation,' she wrote. 'It is light.'

All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury