Abdurrahman AlQahtani

“She stared into the distance and tried to think, honestly and properly, about her life: up here where it was clearer, and she could breathe, and she wasn’t surrounded by a million people in a great hurry dashing or grabbing or shouting or achieving things in their lives that they plastered all over Facebook and Instagram, making you feel inadequate.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

“Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner

“فمن أحب من نظرة واحدة وأسرع العلاقة من لمحة خاطرة؛ فهو دليل على قلَّة الصبر، ومُخبرٌ بسرعة السلو، وشاهد الظرافة والملل، وهكذا في جميع الأشياء أسرعُها نموًّا أسرعها فناءً، وأبطؤها حدوثًا أبطؤها نفاذًا.”
― Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm, ‫طوق الحمامة في الأُلفَةِ والأُلَّاف‬

“Because life is like that, isn’t it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you’d never do anything ever again.”
― Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner