Amreen Siddiqui

“You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey.”
― Book House, 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - volume 1 [newly updated] [The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Misérables, ...

“Was I happy? Yes, I had nothing to mourn or regret, I had no complicated desires. Therefore, I was happy. I remembered that since my childhood I had had spiritual illuminations, mystical emotions, a morbid fondness for shutting myself up face to face with my past. I had attributed exceptional importance to myself and had come to think that I was more than other people. But this had gradually become submerged in the positive nothingness of every day.”
― Book House, 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - volume 1 [newly updated] [The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Misérables, ...

“while the Room kept its secret, like some one thinking.”
― Book House, 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - volume 1 [newly updated] [The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Misérables, ...

“Human contact wears things out with disheartening slowness.”
― Book House, 100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - volume 1 [newly updated] [The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Misérables, ...