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Maestro of Solitude
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Omar El Akkad
“A man says to her: Inti zay el amar. You are like the moon. Again, translation fails. There is no English equivalent to the lineage of this phrase, a lineage that runs through generations of old movies and love songs and family gatherings. Listen to the sly setting joy and pleading, raw pleading that carries the words as this man tells the girl who lived when so many others died that she is beautiful beyond the bounds of this world.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Annie Ernaux
“A lifetime is split up into successive stages when people become “old enough to”:
—take Holy Communion...
—start having their period...
—drink wine...
—get a job and go dancing...
—do one's military service
—go and see naughty films
—get married and have kids
—wear black
—stop working
—die

In our lives nothing is thought, everything is done.

People are forever remembering.”
Annie Ernaux, Shame

John  Green
“Rothman describes one sanitorium as "too prisonlike to be a hospital, and too hospitallike to be a prison.”
John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis / The Anthropocene Reviewed

Leila Mottley
“Eyelashes; get one stuck in the white of your eye and you'll feel the phantom of it long after its gone. Hope is like that too, I think.”
Leila Mottley

Omar El Akkad
“Instead, something else changes most radically in the psychology of someone who leaves home. A relative distance between the person one is and the person they must become.”
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

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