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“This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.”
― Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“ليتني أستحيل ظلاً فأفهم حديث الظلال”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“ إنني لأخشى إن انجابت عنا هذه الظلمة و غمرنا الضوء أن يكره كل واحد منا النظر في وجه صاحبه" آمنة”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“ نعم أستطيع أن أنظر إليكِ و لن أستطيع أن أنظر إلا إليكِ و أنتِ أتطيقين أن تنظري إلي ؟ أمازلتِ تضمرين لي الانتقام و لم أجب إلا بما تجيب به المرأة المغلوبة التي انكسرت نفسها و ذاب قلبها”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“ما أسهل المكر حين تتهيأ له النفس ! وما أيسر الكيد حين يطمئن إليهِ الضمير !”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“المرأة لا تغلب الا اذا أحبت، ولا تقهر الا اذا أرادت، ولا تذعن الا اذا رغبت في الاذعان”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“ يالقوة النساء! لقد آمنت منذ ذلك الوقت بأنها لا حد لها.
يا لمكر النساء! لقد آمنت منذ ذلك بأنه لا أخر له ولا قرار.
يا لقدرة النساء على الكيد و براعتهن في التلوين و نهوضهن بأثقل الأعباء و ثباتهن لأفدح الخطوب”
― طه حسين, دعاء الكروان

“رُبَّمَا أَعْطَاكَ فَمَنَعَكَ , وَ رُبَّمَا مَنَعَكَ فَأَعْطَاَكَ”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري, الحِكم العطائية

“Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.”
― Agatha Christie, Partners in Crime

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you. ”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs Of A Geisha, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecognizable?”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“It struck me that we-that moth and I-were two opposite extremes. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every
way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all. While thinking this thought, I reached out a finger to feel the moth’s velvety surface; but when I brushed it with my fingertip, it turned all at once into a pile of ash without even a sound, without even a moment in which I could see it crumbling. I was so astonished I let out a cry. The swirling in my mind stopped; I felt as if I had stepped into the eye of a storm. I let the tiny shroud and its pile of ashes flutter to the ground; and now I understood the thing that had puzzled me all morning. The stale air had washed away. The past was gone.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“And when I raised myself to look at the man who’d spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I wasn’t thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he’d taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well,
for something I’m not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried upon it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“But, Mameha-san, I don’t want kindness!”
“Don’t you? I thought we all wanted kindness. Perhaps what you mean is that you want something more than kindness. And that is something you’re in no position to ask.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“My tears simply broke through the fragile wall
that had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“It’s less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can’t stop from happening.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“If we rub a fabric too often, it will quickly grow threadbare; and Nobu’s words had rasped against me so much, I could no longer maintain that finely lacquered surface Mameha had always counseled me to hide behind.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha