Farida Z

“As I say, these were helpful lessons for me. Not only had I learnt that changes were a part of Josie, and that I should be ready to accommodate them, I'd begun to understand also, that this wasn't a trait peculiar just to Josie, that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passersby - as they might in a store window, and that such display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun

“همني أن أرى فتاة جادة وهي تحب، إذ أن انزلاق قدم وزير أضحك بكثير من انزلاق قدم بهلوان.”
― نجيب محفوظ, ثرثرة فوق النيل

“And so the geek inherited the earth.”
― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record