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“يا عالم الغيبِ! ذنبي أنتَ تعرفُه
وأنت تعلمُ إعلاني.. وإسراري
وأنتَ أدرى بإيمانٍ مننتَ به
علي.. ما خدشته كل أوزاري
أحببتُ لقياكَ.. حسن الظن يشفع لي
أيرتُجَى العفو إلاّ عند غفَّارِ؟ .”
― غازي القصيبي

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“So boasting of her capacity to surround and protect, there was scarcely a shell of herself left for her to know herself by; all was so lavished and spent; and James, as he stood stiff between her knees, felt her rise in a rosy-flowered fruit tree laid with leaves and dancing boughs into which the beak of brass, the arid scimitar of his father, the egotistical man, plunged and smote, demanding sympathy.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.”
― Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain, I Capture the Castle), I Capture the Castle