Mimona Masarwa > Mimona's Quotes

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I know for sure that I will always compare every city skyline to New York's. Just as I will always compare every boy to Daniel.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“People in love want everyone else to be in love.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“It's better to see life as it is, not as you wish it to be. Things don't happen for a reason. They just happen.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body. I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Observable Fact: You should never take long shots. Better to study the odds and take the probable shot. However, if the long shot is your only shot, then you have to take it.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun is Also a Star

“You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Believe in Your Heart

Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the Queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“إن كل فرد منا مؤتمن على إرثين، الأول عمودي يأتيه من أسلافه وتقاليد شعوبه وطائفته الدينية. والثاني أفقي يأتيه من عصره ومعاصريه”
― أمين معلوف, الهويات القاتلة

“لقد انتهت المعارك ولم تنته أيضاً.. لم ينتصر أو يهزم أحد.. مجرد هدنة غير محددة.. كما هو حال كل شيء.. الأزمات تتأجل وتسافر معنا للأمام..”
― أحمد سعداوي, إنه يحلم، أو يلعب، أو يموت

“الموت في الحياة
نوم بلا بعث ولا رقاد”
― عبد الوهاب البياتي, الذي يأتي ولا يأتي

“There are many words a woman in love longs to hear. “I’ll love you forever, darling,” and “Will it be a diamond this year?” are two fine examples. But young lovers take note: above all else, the phrase every girl truly wants to hear is “Hi, this is Amy from Science Support; I’m dropping off some heads.”
― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”
― Noam Chomsky

“In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"

Laughter. A murmur of approval. The writer hesitated a few seconds. Then counter-attacked:

"I'm a liar by vocation," he shouted. "I lie with joy! Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance."

Then more soberly, he added - his voice lowered - that the principal difference between a dictatorship and a democracy is that in the former there exists only one truth, the truth as imposed by power, while in free countries every man has the right to defend his own version of events.

Truth, he said, is a superstition.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons

“لاحظت حينذاك قوة الإيمان وسهولة بعثه في النفوس . إذ تكفي معرفة أمر ما أكثر مما يعرفه الآخرون ، وحينها من السهل فعل المعجزات”
― فلاديمير بارتول

“كم هو سهل الإيمان بأشياء لا تتطلب منا تضحية ، لكن عندما يتوجب أن نهب حياتنا برهانا على إيماننا ، فإننا نتردد”
― فلاديمير بارتول

“كفرد أخير من فرقة روك منسية...أشتاق أصدقائى”
― سوزان عليوان, قمصان واسعة على وحدتى

“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
― John Keats, Letters of John Keats

“I will always be an addict even if you put the word ‘recovering’ in front of it. I will always have to work ten times as hard to be trusted, to be trustworthy but that’s the price I have to pay for my mistakes.”
― Emma Scott, Forever Right Now

“You can’t even see it. I’m the safest thing you’ll ever find”
― Sophie Jordan, Foreplay

“Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on where you were sitting) Libby let off the smelliest, loudest fart known to humanity. It came out of her bum-oley with such force that she lifted off my knee - like a hovercraft. Even she looked surprised by what had come out of her.”
― Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God

“I don't want to be rude to the afflicted but Uncle Eddie is bald in a way which is the baldest I have ever seen.”
― Louise Rennison, On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God