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“There are some things a girl never forgets, Ry. And one of those is a kiss from the right guy”
― Julie James, About That Night

“Firnis lächelte gütig. "Bücher sind lebendige Wesen", sagte er, "und wenn man ganz in sie eintaucht, dann erwachen sie zum Leben. Und wie die Gedanken, so bekommen auch die Buchstaben Flügel verliehen. Sie lösen sich vom Papier und flattern im Raum herum.”
― Christoph Marzi, Das Geheimnis der singenden Stadt

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“For a few moments I want to be 5 years old again. I want someone to plunk me down in front of a Disney movie and ask me if I want apple juice or grape.”
― Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Paper Things

“Zu Hause ist da, wo deine Bücher sind.”
― Kerstin Gier, Das erste Buch der Träume

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Science results from a profoundly social process. The common portrayal—that science emerges from a solitary isolated genius, always laboring alone, not owing anything to anyone—is simply wrong.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, Tales from Both Sides of the Brain: A Life in Neuroscience

“Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.”
― Floyd C. Forsberg, The Toughest Prison of All

“Why would you be given wings if you weren't meant to fly?”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“Olmak ya da olmamak, işte bütün mesele bu!
Düşüncemizin katlanması mı güzel
Zalim kaderin yumruklarına, oklarına
Yoksa diretip bela denizlerine karşı
Dur, yeter demesi mi?
Ölmek, uyumak sadece!
Düşünün ki uyumakla yalnız
Bitebilir bütün acıları yüreğin,
Çektiği bütün kahırlar insanoğlunun.
Uyumak, ama düş görebilirsin uykuda, o kötü.
Çünkü, o ölüm uykularında
Sıyrıldığımız zaman yaşamak kaygısından
Ne düşler görebilir insan, düşünmeli bunu.
Bu düşüncedir felaketleri yaşanır yapan.
Yoksa kim dayanabilir zamanın kırbacına?
Zorbanın kahrına, gururunun çiğnenmesine
Sevgisinin kepaze edilmesine
Kanunların bu kadar yavaş
Yüzsüzlüğün bu kadar çabuk yürümesine
Kötülere kul olmasına iyi insanın
Bir bıçak saplayıp göğsüne kurtulmak varken?
Kim ister bütün bunlara katlanmak
Ağır bir hayatın altında inleyip terlemek
Ölümden sonraki bir şeyden korkmasa
O kimsenin gidip de dönmediği bilinmez dünya
Ürkütmese yüreğini?
Bilmediğimiz belalara atılmaktansa
Çektiklerine razı etmese insanları?
Bilinç böyle korkak ediyor hepimizi:
Düşüncenin soluk ışığı bulandırıyor
Yürekten gelenin doğal rengini.
Ve nice büyük, yiğitçe atılışlar
Yollarını değiştirip bu yüzden
Bir iş, bir eylem olma gücünü yitiriyorlar.

W. Shakespeare / Hamlet”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set aside its squabblings and join together?”
― Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final Empire

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Is it not possible that the rage for confession, autobiography, especially for memories of earliest childhood, is explained by our persistent yet mysterious belief in a self which is continuous and permanent; which, untouched by all we acquire and all we shed, pushes a green spear through the dead leaves and through the mould, thrusts a scaled bud through the year of darkness until, one day, the light discovers it and shakes the flower free and - we are alive - we are flowering for our moment upon the earth?”
― Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”
― David Benioff, City of Thieves

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

“I could live without television, but not without books.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“You said to lean on your arm
And I am leaning
You said to trust in your love
And I am trusting
You said to call on your name
And I am calling
I'm stepping out on your word”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“The more a person pushes others away, the clearer it becomes he is in need of love the most.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“And never forget my heart is always in your hands”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“For a story was only as good as its villain.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger

“The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger