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“We're growing up," Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it was irrevocable. There was nothing you could do about it except to try and see that you grew up into the kind of human being you wanted to be.
"I'd like to be a fine one," Betsy thought quickly and urgently.”
― Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe
"I'd like to be a fine one," Betsy thought quickly and urgently.”
― Betsy Was a Junior / Betsy and Joe
“You can't know how I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable poor box dresses. I was perfectly sure to be put down in a class next to the girl who first owned my dress, and she would whisper and giggle and point it out to the others. The bitterness of wearing your enemies cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.”
― Daddy-Long-Legs
― Daddy-Long-Legs
“I don’t particularly want to think of your funeral because I’d much prefer to die before you do. But I mean, if I were going to your funeral, at any rate it would be an orgy of grief. I should take a lot of handkerchiefs.”
― By the Pricking of My Thumbs
― By the Pricking of My Thumbs
“الأكثر خطورة هي التبريرات الدينية والفتاوى المغرضة التي سهلت عملية "لاس فيجاسية" مكة، فقد أفتى البعض بجواز اعتبار صلاتك وحدك في غرفتك المطلة على الحرم كصلاة جماعة، وبالتالي لا تضطر للنزول إلى ساحة المسجد الحرام وتكبد مشقة الاحتكاك مع جموع المسلمين. بينما الواقع أن فلسفة الحج هي تحقيق هذا البعد الجماعي والتواصل بين أبناء الأمة الإسلامية في نطاق جغرافي مقدس واحد. وعندما نكتفي بتأمل الكعبة من أعلى فتظهر لك كياناً ضعيفاً فلا يمكن أن يحمل أو يرسل أية دلالات روحانية أو إيمانية. بل وصلت الأزمة الأخلاقية لتنمية عمران المسجد الحرام إلى أقصاها بالدعوة من عدة فنادق محيطة بالحرم لحديثي الزواج بقضاء ليالي شهر العسل اللذيذة الممتعة في جناحك المشرف على المنظر الجميل لبيت الله الحرام؛ كعبة المسلمين..”
― من مكة إلى لاس فيجاس: أطروحات نقدية في العمارة والقداسة
― من مكة إلى لاس فيجاس: أطروحات نقدية في العمارة والقداسة
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