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“-ما الذي تقوله، أيها الصغير،تقتل أباك؟
أجل سأفعل، القتل هذا لا يعني بأنني سألتقط مسدس باك جونز وأطلق عليه الرصاص! لا. سأقتله داخل قلبي، بأن أتوقف عن حبه، وذات يوم سيموت.”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, Delifişek

“ومشي الخوفُ بي ومشيت بهِ
حافياً ، ناسياً ذكرياتي الصغيرة عما أُريدُ
من الغد - لا وقت للغد -”
― محمود درويش, لا أريد لهذي القصيدة أن تنتهي

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

“Oh, honestly, don't you two read?”
― J.K. Rowling

“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“و ماذا كانت ستفعل بنفسها في ليالي الوحدة و الخوف لو لم تكن الكتب هناك”
― بهاء طاهر, نقطة النور

“لايهمُّ السبب الذي نبكي من أجله ،فقد كانت قلوبنا تمتلئ بالأحزان لدرجة أن أي شيءٍ يكفي ليكونَ سبباً”
― عبد الرحمن منيف, شرق المتوسط

“كنا في وقتٍ سابق نهرول نحو الأيام الآتية، كنا نريدها أن تسرع، أن تنطوي، إذ كان هدفنا أن نكبر بسرعة، أمّا الآن و ربما في الأيام القادمة أيضًا نريد أن نهدّئ السرعة، أن نتأمل، أن نقارن لكن الأيام لا تترك لنا فرصة أو مجالًا، و هكذا يسيطر علينا الشعور بالأسى و الشجن. كنّا نركض من أجل ماذا؟ و الآن نحاول أن نبطئ، من أجل ماذا أيضًا؟”
― Abdul Rahman Munif, في أدب الصداقة

“ليس إلى اللقاء، بل وداعا، إننا لن نلتقى مرة أخرى.”
― أنطون تشيخوف, The Three Sisters

“وخلت بطرسبرغ من أكاكيڤيتش وكأنما لم يكن موجودًا فيها أبدًا، اختفى وغاب ذلك المخلوق الذي لم يكن له من يحميه، والذي لم يكن عزيزًا على أحد ولا شيقًا بالنسبة لأحد.”
― نيكولاي غوغول, The Overcoat

“I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Gentle Creature and Other Stories

“It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but – if that is the metaphor – you are the sky.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“It is always brave to be kind.”
― R.J. Palacio, The Julian Chapter

“It won’t be forever. You’ll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you’ll come out.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

“People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don’t even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“إن كان الاجتماعيون هم المترأسون للمجالس والمناصب القيادية لامتلاكهم الكاريزما ومهارات التحفيز، فاعلم أن الإنطوائيين هم قادة العلم والفن.”
― عبداللطيف خالد القرين, هارون أخي

“...take me where I may forget myself, my existence, and all the world.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.”
― Stefan Zweig, Chess Story

“If I wasn't a human girl I think I'd like to be a bee and live among the flowers.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love you”
― Deborah Moggach, Pride & Prejudice screenplay

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?”
― Mary Shelly, Frankenstein

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“But, Audrey, that's what life is. We're all on a jagged graph. I know I am. Up a bit, down a bit. That's life.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey

“How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Finding Audrey