Mimona Masarwa > Mimona's Quotes

“Dreams are like the pieces of fluff that get caught in your hair; they stand out for a moment, but eventually you wash them away, or long fingers reach in & pluck them out & you appear as what everyone expects.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I am beginning to learn that life-altering news is often like a premature birth: ill-timed, catching someone unaware, emotionally unprepared & often where they shouldn’t be:”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“I wrap myself tight around the feelings I cannot share, an unopened present, a gift no one wants.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Never, ever, let them see you sweat, negra. Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Swimming might be the closest to flying
a human being can get. There is something
about your body displacing water

in order to propel through space that makes you feel
Godtouched. That makes me understand evolution,
that we really must have crawled up from the sea.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Who knew death must be so damn polite?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Is this what sisterhood is?
A negotiation of the things you make possible
out of impossible requests?”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“When I try to picture for myself what a happy life might look like, the picture hasn't changed very much since I was a child - a house with flowers and trees around it, and a river nearby, and a room full of books, and someone there to love me, that's all. Just to make a home there, and to care for my parents when they grow older. Never to move, never to board a plane again, just to live quietly and then be buried in the earth.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“And we hate people for making mistakes so much more than we love them for doing good that the easiest way to live is to do nothing, say nothing, and love no one.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I was tired, it was late, I was sitting half-asleep in the back of a taxi, remembering strangely that wherever I go, you are with me, and so is he, and that as long as you both live the world will be beautiful to me.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“تمنيت أن أعيش طويلا لأحبك أكثر
ولكن الأقدار منحتني فرصة الشهادة قبلك
لتكون انت المطالب بحبي وبتحمل غيابي”
― واسيني الأعرج, طوق الياسمين

“لا أدري لماذا نذهب دائما نحو آخر الصفحات عندما يتعلق الأمر بأشواقنا وأحزاننا التي نكتبها؟؟ربما لمباغتة الأقدار التي لا تمنحنا دائما وقتا كافيا لإتمام رحلتنا في الحياة كما نشتهي”
― واسيني الأعرج, طوق الياسمين

“Let's have a toast. To the incompetence of our enemies.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“The odd thing about ambition is this: You can acquire it like a fever, but it is not so easy to shed.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Clap her in chains," says Randalin.
Never have I so wished there was a way for me to show I was telling the truth. But there isn't. No oath of mine carries any weight.
I feel a guard's hand close on my arm. Then Cardan's voice comes.
"Do not touch her."
A terrible silence follows. I wait for him to pronounce judgement on me. Whatever he commands will be done. His power is absolute. I don't even have the strength to fight back.
"Whatever can you mean?" Randalin says. "She's-"
"She is my wife," Cardan says, his voice carrying over the crowd.
"The rightful High Queen of Elfhame. And most definitely not in exile.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“لا يزال الليل ليلاً أكثر من اللازم”
― فرانز كافكا

“أنت هدوءُ قلبي وصخبهُ في آنٍ معاً”
― فرانز كافكا

“Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing