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 HOSSEINIThe 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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At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
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It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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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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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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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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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
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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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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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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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