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#151

“I feel like the word shatter.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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#152

“You think I'm not a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you'll burn.”
― Margaret Atwood

301 likes

#153

“In the end, we'll all become stories.”
― Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

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#154

“I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea. ”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

265 likes

#155

“I exist in two places,
here and where you are.”
― Margaret Atwood

238 likes

#156

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion
Give it up and you will be free.”
― Margaret Atwood

223 likes

#157

“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

tags: past, want

222 likes

#158

“As they say, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

211 likes

#159

“On clear nights, when the stars were white on black instead of smoggy gray, we’d lie on the roof together and say cheesy things like, ‘At least they can’t charge us for moonlight.’ Although later they did, by way of imposing a curfew and fining those of us who broke it.”
― Parker Peevyhouse, Where Futures End

19 likes

#160

“She terrifies him, and he loves her so much it hurts.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Drowning Faith

207 likes

#161

“Between us, we have the fire and the water. I'm quite sure that together, we can take on the wind.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

tags: fight, fire, power, togetherness, water, wind

196 likes

#162

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

190 likes

#163

“Human minds were fallible, but hers less than most, and hers was now the only mind she could trust.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

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#164

“All the ghost stories were wrong; hauntings were so rarely malicious. The dead only wanted to feel included.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

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#165

“It was in the world of living where they met their tragic ends.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

tags: life-lessons, life-quotes-and-sayings, tragedy, tragedy-of-life

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#166

“Loss of identity was a terrifying prospect.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

tags: death-and-dying, human-nature, identity, life-philosophy

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#167

“Mathematicians hated magicians.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

tags: magick, mathematics

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#168

“Do it or you'll die, Alice snapped. Move, Murdoch. Don't think, just do it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

tags: courage-quotes, fears, rivals-to-lovers, struggles

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#169

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: heart, love, quip, reason

3164 likes

#170

“Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.”
― Voltaire, The Works: Voltaire

tags: faith, reason

686 likes

#171

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

26428 likes

#172

“Some are born virtuous, some become virtuous. To be good by nature is indeed fortunate but to become good is like walking on a double-edged sword; it takes a longer time and is more painful.”
― Umera Ahmed

tags: good, islam, pain, peer-e-kamil, spiritual, sword

235 likes

#173

“Nafs.
Nafs Insaan Ko Janwar Bana Deti Hai. Jab Insaan Nafs Ka Ghulam Ho Jata Ha tou Janwar Ban Jata Hai!”
― Umera Ahmed, Shahr E Zaat/شہر ذات

tags: shehr-e-zaat

91 likes

#174

“دنیا‏ ‏عورت‏ ‏کے‏ ‏ماضی‏ ‏کو‏ ‏کبھی‏ ‏نہیں‏ ‏بھولتی.‏ ‏دنیا‏ ‏صرف‏ ‏مرد‏ ‏کے‏ ‏ماضی‏ ‏کو‏ ‏بھولتی‏ ‏ہے.‏"‏”
― Umera Ahmed, La Hasil/لا حاصل

60 likes

#175

“زندگی میں انسان کو ایک عادت ضرور سیکھ لینی چاہیے جو چیز ہاتھ سے نکل جائے اسے بھول جانے کی عادت. یہ عادت بہت سی تکلیفوں سے بچا دیتی ہے.”
― Umera Ahmed, Amarbel/امربیل

tags: life-lessons

56 likes

#176

“The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

tags: religion, spititual

42 likes

#177

“To him who begs for a drop,
You grant the seas.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

28 likes

#178

“She is beyond me, but my love is pure, not base desire
To her alone I belonged, I belong - even if mine she may not be.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

25 likes

#179

“Forget her."
"How can anyone forget breathing?”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

23 likes

#180

“You have been my saviour in my loneliness.
Were it not for you, I would have been dead.”
― Umera Ahmed, Peer e Kamil

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