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.
KHALED HOSSEINII’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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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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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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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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