Ashly Obryant

“Then wake up my sweet,  wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal.”
― Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

“أين الآخرون؟ يا إلهي، أين هم الناس الآخرون الآن؟ فأنا لن أستطيع متابعة الحياة دونهم حتماً
كان يهم بالصراخ. أراد أن يصرخ عالياً تلك الجملة بأنه لن يستطيع متابعة الحياة دون الناس.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon

“A newspaper photograph showed an older man and a younger man, both in dark suits, shaking hands. In the young one, bowing to the older one, I recognized myself. I was graduating from school, and was getting a prize from the principal at the ceremony. That was a long time after Hanna had left the city.”
― Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram