It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
KHALED HOSSEINILike a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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