Noha

“ولربما كنت نجحت لو أنني زرعت بذوري في أرض الشعب الخصبة بدلا من زرعها في أراضي القصور الملكية الجدباء. وأنت يا شعب فارس الذي عقدت عليه أعظم آمالي، لا تظنن أنك بشطبك رجلا من الوجود تستطيع نيل الحرية. إن عليك أن تتجرأ على زعزعة التقاليد البالية”
― أمين معلوف, Samarkand

“Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“. . . I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories.
I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me