The Yacoubian Building Quotes

#1. It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42

Alaa Al Aswany

#2. WI felt I ought to comment on that, but nothing occurred to me.

Walter Moers

#3. There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.

Roy Spence

#5. Everything that is written merely to please the author is worthless.

Blaise Pascal

#6. He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

Julia Spencer-Fleming

#7. Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."
The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.

Erin Bow

#8. Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

Paolo Giordano