Toufiq

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep—it can't be done abruptly.”
― Colm Tóibín

“The photographs had made him aware how much the street and the buildings meant to him. Like an extended family that he’d taken for granted and ignored, assuming it would always be there. But buildings and roads and spaces were as fragile as human beings, you had to cherish them while you had them.”
― Rohinton Mistry, Family Matters

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron