Abdulrahman

“Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening

“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields, The Republic of Love

“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”
― Thomas Browne

“Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.”
― Walker Evans