Hazel Cabe

“Sometimes in dreams there are visions of the past. For that reason Alice Prentice had always welcomed sleep, but she suffered an insomniac's dread of the time just before sleeping, the act of falling asleep itself, the perilous twilight of semi-awareness when the mind must struggle for coherence, when a siren or a cry in the street is the very sound of terror and the ticking of the clock is a steady reminder of death.”
― Richard Yates, A Special Providence

“تربية الأطفال شيء أخطر من أن يترك لتقدير كل بمفرده.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“You know that your truth, the one that you hide… is the thing you are most afraid of.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls