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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
“All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not the power to attend to it. I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. When I opened the shutters and looked out at the wet wild morning, all of a leaden hue; when I walked from room to room; when I sat down again shivering, before the fire, waiting for my laundress to appear; I thought how miserable I was, but hardly knew why, or how long I had been so, or on what day of the week I made the reflection, or even who I was that made it.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“إن أحدث معلم في مكة المكرمة هو ساعة "بيج بن الإسلامية"، وهي ساعة تزين مع الهلال الذهبيه، وشعار المملكة السعودية في المركز، وعبارة "الله أكبر" بالخط العربي على الحافة العليا، بالإضافة إلى أبراج البيت وفندق فيرمونت العملاق. وهذا مثال شاهد لجميع مشاريع التنمية الفانتازية التي سوف تساهم في حالة الاختناق العمراني ومن ثم الروحاني للمسجد الحرام والكعبة الشريفة. فهذه الساعة التي كلفت 800 مليون دولار، هي رمز الرأسمالية البترولية بامتياز. فإلى جانب أهمية أن تكون بيئة الحج آمنة ومريحة فهي بالمقام الأول يجب أن تكون تجربة روحانية ومقدسة. ولكن الشواهد المرصودة توضح أن مكة المكرمة التي كانت يوماً من الأيام واديا قاحلا يستقطب الحجاج في رحلة روحانية تطهيرية، قد تحولت إلى نطاق تجاري استثماري استهلاكي محوط بالفنادق الفاخرة وناطحات السحاب الشاهقة ومراكز التسوق العالمية.”
― من مكة إلى لاس فيجاس: أطروحات نقدية في العمارة والقداسة
― من مكة إلى لاس فيجاس: أطروحات نقدية في العمارة والقداسة
“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
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