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“It was never worth worrying about someone you didn’t love. And it wasn’t love if you didn’t worry.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“He spoke of...the people who had once made up the circle of the old countess' contemporaries, who had once been an actual, living, definite circle, but who now, mostly scattered over the world, were living out their time, as she was, gleaning the remaining ears of what they had sown in their lives.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“على المرءِ أن يعترف يا أميمتي، بأنّه قد يحدث له أن يعيش في الحياة، وهو لا يعلمُ بأن هناك على مقربةٍ منه، كتابًا يتضمن مجموع تفاصيلِ حياته، وقد سُلط عليها الضوء، كتابًا يتضمن جميع ما لم ينتبه إليه من قبل هو بالذات، أبدًا؛ وما أن يشرع في قراءة ذلك الكتاب، حتى يأخذ في تذكر ذلك الماضي، ويستعيده، ويستوعبه شيئًا فشيئًا.”
― Fyodor Mihayloviç Dostoyevski, Poor Folk

“You know, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren’t loved when we needed it most. It’s a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient