Afton

“I understand my parents quite well. They think of a wife as a man’s luxury, which he can afford only when he is making a comfortable living. I have a low opinion of this view of the relationship between man and wife, because it makes the wife and the prostitute distinguishable only insofar as the former is able to secure a lifelong contract from the man because of her more favourable social rank . . . Which”
― Robyn Arianrhod, Young Einstein: And the story of E=mc²

“دیگر امیدی به پیدا شدن نیست.دنبال من نکرد! بگذار فقط افسانه‌وار همان‌جا که هستیم و هر که هستیم بمانیم. تو خودت باش و من هم خودم.امروز و امروز و امروز. و بگذار آینده به فردا اعتماد کند. بگذار ستاره‌ها مراقب ما باشند. بگذار در مدارهای خودمان حرکت کنیم، و مطمئن باشیم که روزی در آینده به هم برمی‌خورند. بگذار تجدید دیدارمان نه یک یافتن و پیدا شدن، که تصادف شیرین سرنوشتمان باشد!
باز هم دوستت دارم و دوستت دارم و دوستت دارم!”
― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

“The overarching message of Boqol Sawm was that this life is temporary. If you lived outside the dictates of the Prophet you would burn in hell for the duration of your real life, the afterlife. But if you lived righteously, Allah would reward you in paradise. And men in particular would receive special blessings if they became warriors for Allah.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now

“George’s utterance of the nest and the trap belonged to a bigger mystery she did not yet understand. One day I will, she promised herself. She would stake her life that those last words from her son would be solved by her. They were steppingstones into… whatever the wind and the stars and the valiant trees held for her.”
― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds