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“الموت الذي يقتل الحياة بالخوف حتى قبل أن يجيء. لو رُدَّ إلى الحياة لصاح بكل رجل: لا تخف! الخوف لا يمنع من الموت ولكنه يمنع من الحياة. ولستم يا أهل حارتنا أحياء ولن تتاح لكما الحياة ما دمتم تخافون الموت.”
― أولاد حارتنا
― أولاد حارتنا
“The most important thing in human relationship is conversation.but people don't talk anymore,they don't sit down to talk and listen.They go to theatre,the cinema,watch television,listen to the radio,read books but they almost never talk.(pg114)”
― The Zahir
― The Zahir
“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else. I feel this brief panic as I think, What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether? I make myself push this aside and concentrate on the feel of her skin until I no longer see molecules but Violet.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals. —Gretel Ehrlich”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
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