Pakistani Readers discussion

Know that one line which latches onto your mind and doesn't let go? For me, it is:
"Go then. There are other worlds than these."
The Gunslinger by Stephen King. What's yours?

purpose of life is a life of purpose
heard very long time ago dont know by who just stuck in my mind

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

it is in roman english bu it is from sir syed essays

"Jo cheez qarib nai hoti us ki qurbaat hooti hai"

My all-time favourite
"Tomorrow is another day."
Scarlett O'Hara - Gone with the wind (Margaret Mitchell)

The ending lines of 'Sense of An Ending' :

There is accumulation.There is responsibility.And beyond these,there is unrest.There is great unrest.

For the sake of injecting some humor in this thread, from "One False Move" by Harlan Coban

"If you clone yourself, and then have sex with yourself, is it incest or masturbation?"

^ Hahaha

Some more humour, read it a few months ago. Can't remember where.

"I miss you like an idiot misses the point."

Risha wrote: "^ Hahaha

Some more humour, read it a few months ago. Can't remember where.

"I miss you like an idiot misses the point.""

Hahahaha...:) Nice one.

whenever i watch a movie made on the story of a book this quote of Paulo Coelho comes to my mind immediately

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.”
Paulo Coelho

Another favourite:

"The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

--To Kill a Mockingbird --Harper Lee

Another favourite:

"The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

--To Kill a Mockingbird --Harper Lee

"My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world."
— Rumi- The Essential Rumi

I read an interview of bill gates a long time ago and this Quote was something that got stuck with me.

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
Bill Gates

I know another really cool Bill Gates quote:
"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one"

“Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the
other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

i love you because the entire world conspired to help me find you- the alchemist

There are so many:

1- "I opened myself to the benign indifference of the world". Albert Camus ( The Stranger)

2- "But the truth cher ami, is a colossal bore!". Albert Camus ( The fall )

3- "The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.” Dostoevsky ( crime and punishment)

4- “Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!” Dostoevsky ( crime and punishment )

5- "so it goes". Vonnegut ( slaughterhouse 5)

6- “War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.” Orwell ( 1984)

7- "You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.” Palaniuk ( fightclub)

lol I could do this all day :S

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope is to remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired"

- Erik H. Erikson

"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk
failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."

-Leo Buscaglia

• Without pain, how could we know joy?

• Pain demands to be felt.

-The Faults in our stars.

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.

"You're like snow," he told me, "beautiful but cold."

“Somewhere in his body―perhaps in the marrow of his bones―he would continue to feel her absence.”

"I never lie" , I lied -Moth smoke

"For you a thousand times over" -The kite runner

my favorite:

"if you say that crushing ideals with hopeless ideas from having experienced both the sweet and bitter of life is an adult way of thinking .............. then you can keep calling me a kid forever."

"Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all the way into our souls."

From Paradise by Judith McNaught!

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Alchemist

for who so firm that cannot be seduced! - TFIOS

Aakash wrote: "And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Alchemist"

i didn't read that one book - but i heard this quote so much! :P

Syeda wrote:
i didn't read that one book - but i heard this quote so much! :P

haha! Then I strongly recommend you to read that book.

Its marvellous. And Actually that quote is the basic theme of the whole novel. So its kinda famous. But above I have merged two quotes! :3
I love the desert woman in that book beautifully described. If I am not forgetting she has black eyes. <3.

i experienced brida - ov paulo coelho - but didn't liked ett much! - Okay - *will try to explore this one*

yeah! Brida is not that good but it does has some good quotations and that physics wala idea of his(brida) that one is interesting.

The things you own, end up owning you!!

Fight club

Syeda wrote: "i experienced brida - ov paulo coelho - but didn't liked ett much! - Okay - *will try to explore this one*"

Syeda, to be honest, I liked his book Veronica decides to die more than The Alchemist. :p

Aakash wrote: "yeah! Brida is not that good but it does has some good quotations and that physics wala idea of his(brida) that one is interesting."

No spoilers... I'm gonna start Brida soon. B|

Maira wrote: "whenever i watch a movie made on the story of a book this quote of Paulo Coelho comes to my mind immediately

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to mo..."

Thats great! :)

@nigham
well! I haven't read veronica wala novel :3 (should I?)

There is a sudden twist in the end... that'll surely make you like it. I gave it 4 stars but even then it's wonderful... In-fact, yes! It's worth reading.

Favorite line: "An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely."

Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho. :)

Well then I'll try it sometime. :) nice quotation!

Aakash wrote: "Well then I'll try it sometime. :) nice quotation!"

Sure and thank you. :)

:)

Nigham wrote: "Syeda wrote: "i experienced brida - ov paulo coelho - but didn't liked ett much! - Okay - *will try to explore this one*"

Syeda, to be honest, I liked his book Veronica decides to die more than Th..."

hahaha. wow! @zarish. i read that beginning part ov - veronica decides to die - On scribd webiste - where she was waiting to die and thinking Ol da super-crazy stuff :P

Nigham wrote: "There is a sudden twist in the end... that'll surely make you like it. I gave it 4 stars but even then it's wonderful... In-fact, yes! It's worth reading.

Favorite line: "An awareness of death en..."

woah! *again* - his quotations used to be so exact and amazing - more than his plot Ov stories.

sssshhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! I have to read Veronica decides to die.

@sedya I think y o u ' r e underestimating Coelho's writing.
Its full of inspirations....

“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.”

Salman wrote: "“Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures.
No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying thems..."

Where's that from? Seems like some Jordan-esque epic fantasy writer. :P

Its from Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

Everything has a purpose, even machines.Broken machines make me so sad, they can't do what they're meant to do. Maybe it's same with people. If you lose your purpose, it's like you're broken. Machines never come with any extra parts, they always come with exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine I couldn't be an extra part.

The most resilient parasite is idea.

Aakash wrote: "sssshhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! I have to read Veronica decides to die.

@sedya I think y o u ' r e underestimating Coelho's writing.
Its full of inspirations...."

I.....won't recommend that. It isn't very good, tbh. But maybe that's just my vitriol against Coelho boiling over. :D