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Cartography is another name for stories told by winners. For stories told by those who have lost, there isn’t one.
She once said, half jokingly, that she was too rebellious to be a good mum, too motherly to be a good rebel.
was it also possible to inherit something as intangible and immeasurable as sorrow?
I am a Ficus carica, known as the edible common fig, though I can assure you there’s nothing common about me.
The human species’ appetite for novelty is insatiable and I’m not sure it does them much good.
Where do you start someone’s story when every life has more than one thread and what we call birth is not the only beginning, nor is death exactly an end?
Trees are full of songs and we are not shy to sing them.
if you find a happy village, look for the cook.’
Wisdom consists of ten parts: nine parts of silence, one part of words.’
The path of an inherited trauma is random; you never know who might get it, but someone will.
Parents, especially those as distracted as her father, desperately needed things to run smoothly and were so inclined to believe the system they had created was working fine that they assumed a normality even when surrounded by clues to the contrary.
Arriving there is what you are destined for, But do not hurry the journey at all …
‘Listen, canim, I know you might get cross with me for saying this, but remember, good advice is always annoying and bad advice never is. So if what I say irritates you, take it as good advice.’
Sorrow is to the soul what a worm is to wood.’
God made lower branches for birds that cannot fly so well.’
bridges appear in our lives only when we are ready to cross them.
What we think is impossible changes with every generation.’
Maybe we give other names to grief because we are too scared to call it by its name.’
Knowledge is nobody’s property.
Some day this pain will be useful to you.
If you weep for all the sorrows in this world, in the end you will have no eyes.’
There was something childlike in the way grown-ups had a need for stories.
