The library's cat

"إنا مكانكم في الأرض

"يا عبد الله

"أينما كانت رائحتك. ألم تقل مخطوطة العاشقين ونجوم الآفلين إن لكل حب نجمة ترعاه؟ سأكون نجمتك التي لا تغيب. وإن الحبيب للحبيب غطاء؟ سأكون غطاءك في الأيام القاسية والصعبة. وإن الحبيب للحبيب مسافة؟ سأكون، عمري، مسافتك بين القلب ولسانك."

"الدنيا التي لاقتنا على كتاب، جمعتنا على كتاب، وجعلتنا نعشق الدنيا أيضا على كتاب."

"نحن لا نصنع الحياة التي نشتهي فقط، الحياة أيضًا تصنعنا مثلما تريد، وتدس في أجسادنا ما تشتهيه من جنونها وقنابلها الموقوتة"

"ليست السنوات العابرة شيئًا مهمًا في أعمار الحجارة والبشر، ولكنها كافية للشهادة على زمن كان فينا ولم نكن فيه الا قليلاً."

من أين تأتينا النهاية؟

"...despite their promise, and central role in many ancient human fascinations, fungi have received a tiny fraction of the attention given to animals and plants."

"At a molecular level, fungi and humans are similar enough to benefit from many of the same biochemical innovations."

" لكل لغة خصوصيتها، ولأن اللغة جزء من ثقافة الشعوب، والثقافات وإن تشابهت فيما بينها فلا بد أن يتفرّد بعضها بما يميزه عن بعضها الآخر."

" Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant... I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature!"

" You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago... I have loved none but you."

"He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his one warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not wich prevailed."

"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feeling so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted."

" ... it is singularity wich oftens makes the worst part of our suffering"

"By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature - the investigation of the total relations of the animal both to its inorganic and to its organic; including above all, its friendly and inimical relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact - in a word, ecology is the study of all those complex interrelationships referred to by Darwin as the conditions of the struggle for existence."

"إن العلاقة بين الأم وابنتها علاقة مريضة، بُنيت على القهر والخوف، وفي مثل هذا القهر والخوف تفسد العلاقات بين أعضاء الجنس المقهور.