A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
KHALED HOSSEINIOf all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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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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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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There is a way to be good again.
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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 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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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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 then it passed, as all things do.
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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