Amal Mustafa

“ لا ينبغي لنا أن نثق كثيراً في السعادة. إنها آتية هاربة, منفلتة كلما أردنا القبض عليها. قد تكون مثل عصفور جميل يحط على حافة شرفتنا. لا نكاد نقترب منه حتى يطير. هل تعتقدين أن العصفور سيحط على الكتف ويغني لك أو لي كما نتخيل؟”
― محمد شكري

“Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination.”
― Alberto Manguel

“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close