Wendy

“I don’t want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don’t want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I’m not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”
― Hanan Al-Shaykh, Beirut Blues

“Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
― William Congreve

“My goodness, no one gives a gift to Santa Claus!”
― Michael Brown

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen