Youssef Helal

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

“This is not for you.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.”
― Alex Garland, The Beach

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye