Michael Reilly

“قد أكون هذا الكتاب, و من أجل قراءته و لمس صفحاته و تقليبها بنوع من الحمى ينبغي المجيء إليَ و تعلم القراءة في عيني و على جلدي, و لمسي, و ملاطفة ظهر يدي لكي تسيل الجمل واحدة بعد الاخرى, ثم تأتي لتصطف في عيون أخرى و نظرات أخرى كما لو أنني الذاكرة البدائية, تلك التي تروي إلى مالانهاية قصة هذا الوهم السحري.”
― Tahar Ben Jelloun, نزل المساكين

“The late John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Since women, for many years, were denied the journey, they were left with only one plot in their lives --
to await the stranger. Indeed, there is essentially no picaresque tradition among women novelists. While the latter part of the twentieth century has seen a change of tendency, women's literature from Austen to Woolf is by and large a literature about waiting, usually for love.”
― Mary Morris, The Illustrated Virago Book of Women Travellers

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain