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Adi Alsaid

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Dear Sylas,

This is your sister, Lucy.

She was born during the sunset, just a tiny bit smaller...
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Published on June 12, 2013 09:47 • 1 view
Average rating: 4.32 · 34 ratings · 13 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
Somewhere Over the Sun
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions

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Ministry of Lost Hours (Literature & Fiction)
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Description: A clerk at the Ministry of Lost Hours deals with citizens' time reimbursement forms. [Unfinished]

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“I hate technology. It provides so many different channels of loneliness. Every time you check your email and don’t see a new message, you know that, even though people have the ability to contact you at any time of the day from anywhere on the planet, no one is interested in doing so. Phones are constant reminders that 160 people you know fairly well have nothing to say to you most of the time.”
Adi Alsaid, Somewhere Over the Sun

“God crafted men’s eyes and women’s breast from the same material, I’m convinced. Whenever eyes wander toward cleavage, they’re just trying to feel like they’re home. It’s also why breasts always know when they’re being watched.”
Adi Alsaid, Somewhere Over the Sun

“Waking up to a smell is a lot more satisfying than waking up to a noise. Instead of barging in uninvited and yanking you out into reality, smells enter your dreams with a silent knock and a polite "Excuse me?”
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“I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some proof that everything in its way mattered, that working hard mattered, that feeling things mattered, that even sadness and loss mattered, because it was all part of something that would live on. But I had also come to recognize that not everything needs to be durable. the lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating. Rin Tin Tin did not need to be remembered in order to be happy; for him, it was always enough to have that instant when the sun was soft, when the ball was tossed and caught, when the beloved rubber doll was squeaked. Such a moment was complete in itself, pure and sufficient.”
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“I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.”
― Louis CK

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
W. Somerset Maugham

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