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Woah.

"Dr. Singh told me once that if you have a perfectly tuned guitar and a perfectly tuned violin in the same room, and you pluck the D string of the guitar, then all the way across the room, the D string on the violin will also vibrate. I could always feel my mother’s vibrating strings."

"لا يعرف أحد إلى الآن نظرية تتيح لشعب "راق" أن يجتث شعباً متخلفاً إلا النازية" ..

"You are my favorite stick of dynamite.
You are the opposite of a rubber band.
There are so many things I would tell you
if I thought that you would listen
and so many more you would tell me
if you believed I would understand."

Hmm..

"Imagine a daily life in which your faculty of speech is taken away."

"Now your mind is a room where twenty radios, all tuned to different stations, are blaring out voices and music. The radios have no off-switches or volume controls, the room you’re in has no door or window, and relief will come only when you’re too exhausted to stay awake."

Jane Austen can tell the difference between a heavy gaze, and beautiful attention..

A LOT of plot twists. Wow. Wow.

Woah :"D

Okay, this book literally forces you to drown inside. a beautiful mood.

You forget how gorgeous paperbacks can actually be ..

hmm..

" If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world."

" In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man—that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing."

“Damn. You’re bleeding a little,” and hands me a tissue. The ants say: Aren’t we all bleeding a little?