Khalil

“I never look down my nose at anyone for what they read. As long as they're reading, at least they aren't watching reality television.”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“The world's oldest university, University of Karaouin, was established by a Muslim woman in Fez, Morocco in 859”
― Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past

“Art doesn’t exist to make you feel good,” the Gallerist said as though reading my mind. “Art exists to make you”
― Kate Quinn, The Astral Library

“How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground. He stood a long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451