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.
KHALED HOSSEINIA 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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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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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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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’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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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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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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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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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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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
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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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