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    Maggie O'Farrell
    “We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”
    ― Maggie O'Farrell, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
    tags: history, identity
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: hope, love
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
    tags: alone, man-s-heart, men, sad, violence, women
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: despair, evil, goodness, inspirational, love, sadness, truth, victory
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    Tan Twan Eng
    “For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.”
    ― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
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    Tan Twan Eng
    “Memory is like patches of sunlight in an overcast valley, shifting with the movement of the clouds. Now and then the light will fall on a particular point in time, illuminating it for a moment before the wind seals up the gap, and the world is in shadows again.”
    ― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
    tags: life, loneliness, memory, perception, perspective, time
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    Tan Twan Eng
    “A raintree bent towards a window in one side of the bungalow, eavesdropping on the conversations that had taken place inside over years.”
    ― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists
    tags: description
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    Jackie Kay
    “It's as if my footprints were already on the road before I even got there.I walk into them, my waiting footprints.”
    ― jackie kay
    tags: destiny, fate, philosophy
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    Nadine Gordimer
    “The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
    ― Nadine Gordimer
    tags: truth
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    Hannah Kent
    “Sleep came to me like a thin tide of water. It would lap against my body but never submerge me.”
    ― Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
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    Nelson Mandela
    “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: freedom, liberty
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    Nelson Mandela
    “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
    ― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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    Nelson Mandela
    “It always seems impossible until it's done.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: attributed-no-source
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
    Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    J.M. Barrie
    “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
    ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
    tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated...”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “A 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.”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Khaled Hosseini
    “the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion”
    ― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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    Rose Tremain
    “I have been held in an embrace so strong by the journey that I find I have relinquished the will to arrive.”
    ― Rose Tremain
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    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: adventure, carpe-diem, enjoy-life, experience, inspirational, life, live-in-the-moment, purpose-of-life
    3349 likes



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