J.J. Rodeo

“وقتی زبان مادری‌ات فقط 127 فعل داشته باشد که مستقیم صرف می‌شوند، وقتی هزاران فعل دیگر را باید به کمک فعل معین صرف کرد، و این فعل هم درست همان فعلی باشد که برای عمل هم‌خوابگی به‌کار می‌رود، آن‌وقت زبان خیانتکار می‌شود.”
― رضا قاسمی / Reza Ghasemi

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“هرچه قضاوت آنها درباره من سخت بوده ‌باشد نمی‌دانند که من پیشتر خودم را سخت‌تر قضاوت کرده‌ام”
― صادق هدایت, زنده به‌گور