Usama ibn Munqidh

"The true philosophical Act is annihilation of self ; this is the real beginning of all Philosophy; all requ…"

"“Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement."

"Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly go…"

"Good news travels slowly but arrives in the end, thank goodness. Bad news always arrives a day too soon."

"We had both learned from the Gardener that old vengeance is like old cake: still seeming sweet, but so dry …"

"There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eye…"