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.
KHALED HOSSEINIA boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to 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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There is a way to be good again.
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I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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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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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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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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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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