Ahmed Essam

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.”
― Stanley Fish

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists”
― John Green, Paper Towns