Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Your Favorite Quotes ...



Few days ago, I asked you guys to write your favorite quotes of  all the time on the Facebook page, and by the end of the week we gathered an amazing collection of  quotes, and they are quite inspiring. So, I decided to Blog them.

Why ??
Because, why not !!!

here they are , enjoy !



"But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves."
John Green , the fault in our stars by Ãmēnÿ Tãbõūbī





"He stepped down trying not to look long at her as if she were the sun , yet he saw her like the sun even without looking "
leo tolstoy -Anna karenina by Feriel Herondale





" it does not do well to dwell on dreams and forget to live "
J K Rowling , Harry Potter by Feriel Herondale





“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
—J. D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew  by Hiba Edahdeh






فيما مضى كنت أحاول أن أُغير العالم .. أما الآن وقد لامستني الحكمة , فلا أحاول أن أُغير شيئا سوى نـــفسي.
- جلال الدين الرومي by حنان محرز




بين منطوق لم يقصد، ومقصود لم ينطق، تضيع الكثير من المحبة

جبران خليل جبران by Khaoula Ltr




'Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.'
 Oscar Wilde by Maïssa Bachouche





"The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves we are underling"
Shakespeare by Kater Nãdaa





Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita by Houda Bes





"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls".
 George Carlin by Lim Dùk





ﻟﻦ ﺗﺴﺘﻄﻴﻌﻲ ﺃﻥ ﺗﺠﺪﻱ ﺍﻟﺸﻤﺲ ﻓﻲ ﻏﺮﻓﺔ ﻣﻐﻠﻘﺔ"
ﻏﺴﺎﻥ ﻛﻨﻔﺎﻧﻲ" by Nour Oueslati




جون جاك روسو by Moukhtalif Mani




Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
St. Thomas Aquinas by Mehdi ChouChène





"No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender to self-chosen ignorance "
 -Atwood H. Townsend by Maliki Aya





"Try again, fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett by Marwen Trabelsi PW





“ليس من يكتب بالحبر كمن يكتب بدم القلب و ليس السكوت الذي يحدثه الملل كالسكوت الذي يوجده الألم.”
― Khalil Gibran, العواصف by me.

Friday, December 5, 2014

Divergent: the book and movie ...



Ok, how can I put this?!!


 I like Divergent, I really do; why wouldn’t I when the main character is a young short brave girl, (my favorite type of heroines) who is living in a society with 5 factions which are Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), Erudite (the intelligent) and Abnegation (the selfless), and our hero, Beatrice, has to choose one of them to join for the rest of her life. Well, it’s a hard decision to make when you are only 16; thankfully the government is there to help. They provide an aptitude test to make them determine which faction they belong to. So far so good, till Beatrice’s test result informs her that she is Divergent and she is a “harm” on the society.  What will she do? What she is going to choose? How is she going to hide and handle her secret?? The answer for that is up to you, you have to read the book to find out.

The book is obviously belongs to Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic Literature with little bits of romantic touches (Tris falls for her instructor Four, (yes, like the number) and they share slow-developing and not rushed love story, Platonic love). It is easy and fun to-be-read for YA and even adults (why not). it is written by the American novelist Veronica Roth and it is the first book in the Divergent Trilogy… B-B-But …



But, something is missing in the book, like magic or something (I don’t know how to describe it). This “missing thing” wasn’t missed in the movie; I love the movie, the director takes the book to a new high level. Don’t judge me but the movie is so much better than the book, why? Because the themes, the characters, the factions and everything are more believable and graspable in the movie than the book. I FOUND the magic .