An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me. ― Michel Houellebecq

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Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army. -Menachem Begin

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My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. ― Haruki Murakami

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Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. ― Shannon L. Alder

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If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs. ― Sarah Dessen

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Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

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I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. ― Hermann Hesse

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In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. ― Sei Shōnagon

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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. ― Ruta Sepetys

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