Bayan

“Do not find peace. Find passion. Find something you want to die for more than something you want to live for. If it is your children, then fight not just for your own but for orphans who have no one else. If it is for medicine, then do not just seek out a cure for cancer but search for a cure for AIDS as well. Fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. Speak for them. Scream for them. Live and die for them. You life will not always be a happy one, but it will have meaning.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Retribution of Mara Dyer

“But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“قرّر الحكماء أنّ الحرّيّة الّتي تنفع الأمّة هي الّتي تحصل عليها بعد الاستعداد لقبولها، وأمّا الّتي تحصل على أثر ثورةٍ حمقاء فقلّما تفيد شيئًا، لأنّ الثّورة غالبًا تكتفي بقطع شجرة الاستبداد ولا تقتلع جذورها، فلا تلبث أن تنبت وتنمو وتعود أقوى ممّا كانت أوّلاً.”
― عبد الرحمن الكواكبي, طبائع الاستبداد ومصارع الاستعباد

“He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.

It’s time to jump.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem