يمنـــى

“Then, however, Mayer thought it fitting to remind her of the most important thing:

'Between the heart and the tongue lies an abyss,' he said. "Remember that. Thoughts must be concealed, particularly since you were born, to your great misfortune, a woman. Think so that they think you are not thinking. Behave in such a way that you mislead others. We all must do this, but women more so. Talmudists know about the strength of women, but they fear it .... But we don't ... because we ourselves are like women. We survive by hiding. We play the fools, pretending to be people we are not. We come home, and then we take off our masks. But we bear the burden of silence: masa duma.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

“Grief isn’t something to be gotten through. It has no life of its own like that. It’s just plain and simply there. It’s one of the things which tells us we are humans.”
― Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty

“لا شيء قادر على التأثير في القارئ أكثر من الكتاب الأول الذي يمس قلبه حقاً. إذ أن صدى الكلمات التى نظن بأننا نسيناها يرافقنا طوال الحياة، ويشيد في ذاكرتنا منزلاً سنعود إليه عاجلاً أم آجلاً. لا يهم حشد الكتب الأخرى التى سوف نقرؤها، ولا عدد العوالم التى سوف نكتشفها، ولا حتى مقدار الأمور التى سوف نتعلمها ثم ننساها.”
― كارلوس زافون

“Words are not nobilities that want their genealogical trees we traced. Words are merchants, swift and useful, now here, now there.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob