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“She had thought the open sea would be flat, like a mirror or a coin. But it had colors and shapes, turning green or black under approaching storm. Sometimes it was red and purple and silver and white gold. It had sharp hedges. It had its tempers, its blue spells, its fits of laughter”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars

“Wealth is no substitute for belonging”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars

“My whole life, Mama and Baba celebrated two religions' worth of holidays—Christmas, Eid al-Fitr, Easter. It used to make me wonder whether the most important things we see in God are really in each other.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars

“People think that stories can be walled off, kept outside and separate. They can’t. Stories are inside you”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars

“Stones don't have to be whole to be lovely," he says. "Even cracked ones can be polished and set. Small diamonds, if they are clear and well cut, can be more valuable than big ones with impurities. Listen," he says. Sometimes the brightest stars shine brightest, no?”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars

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