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“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“I am a tiny seashell
that has secretly drifted ashore
and carries the sound of the ocean
surging through its body.”
― Edward Hirsch

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“الناس يجدون أديانهم كما يجدون أوطانهم وأرضهم وبيوتهم وآباءهم ، يجدونها فقط ولا يبحثون عنها أو يؤمنون بها أو يفهمونها أو يختارونها”
― عبد الله القصيمي, أيها العقل من رآك

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

“و تذكر الرجل نجع النجيلية في الدر و أبناءه و صعد زفرة حارة ثم مضي يملي على القلم عبارات حارة يضيفها إلى الشكوى: قتل فرد جريمة لا تغتفر أما وأد أمة فمسألة فيها نظر”
― محمد خليل قاسم, الشمندورة

“صفحة النيل ناعمة ملساء تبرق برماح من النور تنثال عليها مائلة هنا و هناك, ثم يهب النسيم و يركض برقة فوق سطح الماء فيجعده و يحيل المجرى كله إلى جسد بديع راقص, يترقرق في العيون مثلما يترقرق فيها موسيقى الألوان المتبدية على شاطئ الجزيرة. و على الضفة الشرقية أمام نجع صغير من نجوع أبريم..

نوار الفول الأبيض يتسق مع خضرته المخملية, و سنابل القمح توشوش ثم تهتز مثل رءوس العذارى, و تتطلع في طموح إلى أشجار النخيل الباسقة المطلة على.......إلخ”
― محمد خليل قاسم, الشمندورة

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“No. I don't believe in anything. How many times must I tell you that? I don't believe in anything anyone; only in Zorba. Not because Zorba is better than the others; not at all, not a little bit! He's a brute like the rest! But I believe in Zorba because he's the only being I have in my power, the only one I know. All the rest are guts. All the rest are ghosts, I tell you. When I die, everything'll die. The whole Zorbatic world will go to the bottom!”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers