Sondes Achour

“I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?”
― J.M. Coetzee, Foe

“I'm a perfectly equipped failure.”
― Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl