Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINIPeople say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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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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I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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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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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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