Mimi Kodo

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
― Franz Kafka

“ويقول الناس إن الأطفال يسببون المتاعب، ولكن، من الذي يقول ذلك؟ إن الأطفال يمثلون أعظم سعادة يمكن أن يحصل عليها الناس في هذه الأرض.”
― دوستويفسكي

“هؤلاء الناس الأصلاء، يا لهم من نبلاء، و طيبين، و يا لي من زائف، آه لو أتيح لهم فقط أن ينظروا في أعماقي!، و لو كان لي أن أقول لهم ما خفي عليهم، فقد لا يصدقون قولي!”
― دوستويفسكي

“When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince