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“لا يعرف السبب في فشل زيجته..هل فشلت لأنه كرس حياته من اجل العمل أم هو كرس حياته للعمل لأن زيجته فاشلة؟!
بهذا المنطق الاخير فهو مدين لزوجته لأنها استطاعت أن تجعل منه رجلا مرموقا..الكلاب المسعورة قد تجعل منك بطلا في العدو..و يبدو أن هذا الحال معه”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, أسطورة الرجال الذين لم يعودوا كذلك

“هناك سوف تفترب منه لتجده جالسا وسط المحل بين البضائع..موقد الكيروسين بدفئه الجميل و صوته العذب في ليالي الشتاء و البطانية على كتفيه و صوت (أم كلثوم) ينبعث من ذلك المذياع العتيق المربوط بالحبال”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, أسطورة العلامات الدامية

“هنا تحدث العقدة الشهيرة التي عبر عنها (يحيى حقي) في (قنديل أم هاشم)..حيث لم يعد الرجل يرى في العالم الا نمسا كبيرة..هنا التحضر و الرقي و الجمال و العلم..اختلط حب البلد بجب الفتاة فلم يعد يعرف هل يحب النمسا لأنها بلدها أم يحبها لأنها نمساوية”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, أسطورة العلامات الدامية

“إن النمسا حلم بصري و سمعي جميل لا يعبر عنه الا موسيقى شتراوس ..دعك من أن سالزبورج هي البلد الذي انجب العبقري موتسارت”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, أسطورة العلامات الدامية

“عندما تسمع هذه الأغنية،فاهرع لتلحق بالركب..
الركب الذى يعبر نهر ستيكس الآن..
الموت الزاحف الذى يغرق العقول في لجته..
إنه النوم..النوم الذى لا صحوة منه..
وا حسرتاه !..لسوف تمضى بظمئك الباخوسي..”
― أحمد خالد توفيق

“اني لا أرفض إنسانا لأن فيه خطأ أو اثنين أو عشرة، وأرفض معه بقية فضائله، فقد توجد فيه فضيلة واحدة تزن صلاح مائة عابد”
― خالد محمد خالد

“و إن كان أمل العشاق القرب ..أنا أملى فى حبك هو الحب”
― أحمد فؤاد نجم

“كل عين تعشق حليوة

و إنتي حلوة في كل عين

يا حبيبتي أنا قلبي عاشق

و اسمحيلي بكلمتين

كلمتين يا مصر يمكن

هما أخر كلمتين

حد ضامن يمشي آمن

أو مِـآمن يمشي فين”
― أحمد فؤاد نجم

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mould yourself through the gaps.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“There’s nothing so painful, so corrosive, as suspicion.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that”
― Paula Hawkins , The Girl on the Train

“But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone around them.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“And I’ve just got to let myself feel the pain, because if I don’t, if I keep numbing it, it’ll never really go away.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I am not the girl I used to be. I am no longer desirable, I’m off-putting in some way. It’s not just that I’ve put on weight, or that my face is puffy from the drinking and the lack of sleep; it’s as if people can see the damage written all over me, can see it in my face, the way I hold myself, the way I move.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“It's impossible to resist the kindness of strangers.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“Sometimes I catch myself trying to remember the last time I had meaningful physical contact with another person, just a hug or a heartfelt squeeze of my hand, and my heart twitches.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“They’re what I lost, they’re everything I want to be.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl . . . Three for a girl. I’m stuck on three, I just can’t get any further. My head is thick with sounds, my mouth thick with blood. Three for a girl. I can hear the magpies—they’re laughing, mocking me, a raucous cackling. A tiding. Bad tidings. I can see them now, black against the sun. Not the birds, something else. Someone’s coming. Someone is speaking to me. Now look. Now look what you made me do.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“It’s impossible to resist the kindness of strangers. Someone who looks at you, who doesn’t know you, who tells you it’s OK, whatever you did, whatever you’ve done: you suffered, you hurt, you deserve forgiveness.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“He’s a master at it, making me feel as though everything is my fault, making me feel worthless.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I have to find a way of making myself happy, I have to stop looking for happiness elsewhere. It’s true,”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“There are four kinds of people in this world:

•those who make things happen
•those who watch things happen
•those who wonder what happened
•those who don’t know that anything happened!

I knew from a very early age that I wanted to be first on that list.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared”
― Mary Kay Ash

“People who think animals have expressionless faces are like people who can ignore an open package of Oreos. Not quite human.”
― Julia Kent, Shopping for a Billionaire

“When I look at you I can see my future roll out in one long laugh, like a red carpet of fun and intelligence and hope. A ripple of joy that stretches into the horizon until it disappears. Not because it ceases to exist, but because it’s infinite.”
― Julia Kent, Shopping for a Billionaire Box Set One