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“وما كلُّ نفسٍ حينَ تَلْقَى حَبِيبَها
تُـسَرُّ، ولا كُلُّ الغـِيابِ يُضِيرُها”
― تميم البرغوثي

“الموت فينا, و فيكم الفزع”
― تميم البرغوثي, في القدس

“لكن أذكركم فقط فتذكروا
قد كان هذا كله من قبل واجتزنا به
لا شئ من هذا يخيف، ولا مفاجأة هنالك
يا أمتي ارتبكي قليلاً، انه أمرٌ طبيعي
وقومي
انه أمرٌ طبيعي كذلك”
― تميم البرغوثي

“أمنيتى المستحيلة أن أمنح فرصة أخرى للعيش.. أن أولد من جديد لكن فى ظروف مغايرة أجىء مزودا بتلك المعارف التى اكتسبتها من وجودى الأول الموشك على النفاد.. أولد وأنا أعلم أن تلك النار تلسع.. وهذا الماء يغرق فيه من لا يتقن العوم.. وتلك النظرة تعنى الود وتلك تعنى التحذير. وتلك تنبئ عن ضغينة.. كم من أوقات أنفقتها لأدرك البديهيات.. ومازلت أتهجى بعض مفردات الأبجدية”
― جمال الغيطاني

“امتلاك الشئ يكون احيانا في فقده”
― جمال الغيطاني, سفر البنيان

“تقترن الدهشة و اللذة بالبدايات”
― جمال الغيطاني, دفاتر التدوين: الدفتر الأول: خلسات الكرى

“لو أعرفُ للفُرَاقِ مَوطناً، لسَّعيتُ إليّهِ، وفَارقتهُ”
― جمال الغيطاني, كتاب التجليات :الأسفار الثلاثة

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.”
― Michel Onfray, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
― Aristotle

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“في غمار جدل سياسي سأل أحد النواب وزيرًا :
- هل تستطيع أن تدلني على شخص طاهر لم يلوث؟
- فأجاب الوزير متحديا.
- إليك - على سبيل المثال لا الحصر - الأطفال والمعتوهين والمجانين فالدنيا ما زالت
بخير.”
― Naguib Mahfouz, أصداء السيرة الذاتية

“عجيبة هذه السلطنة بناسها وعفاريتها..ترفع شعار الله وتغوص في الدنس !! ”
― Naguib Mahfouz, Arabian Nights & Days

“-إنها قسمة عادلة ، فالثراء للأقوياء و الأخلاق للضعفاء”
― Naguib Mahfouz

“الناس لاتبوح بأسرارها للأصدقاء وإنما للغرباء في القطارات أو المقاهي العابرة”
― بهاء طاهر

“لم أفهم معنى ذلك الموت ، لا أفهم معنى للموت .. لكن ما دام محتماً فلنفعل شيئاً يبرر حياتنا . فلنترك بصمة على هذه الأرض قبل أن نغادرها .”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب

“يمكن أن تحكم الناس بالخوف والقمع ، لكن الخائفين لايمكن ان ينتصروا في حرب ، في ساحة الحرب يجب أن يكونوا أحراراً”
― بهاء طاهر, واحة الغروب