Half a Cup of Sand and Sky Quotes

“Beauty, it seemed to Amineh, did not have to be extraordinary to be cherished. Maybe that was its secret, that it lived in the most common expressions of man and nature. The artisan had discovered it in a block of wood, which he had carved into a scene of a young woman sitting at a window. The locals had created it through the colorful geraniums they placed on small protrusions covering every square meter of their adobe walls. Even the animals were not immune. Who could doubt the starlings’ ecstatic flight around the minarets of the mosque was inspired by the symmetry of that aging structure.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

“When one starts a new chapter, the page shouldn’t be messy with commentary but white and crisp, ready for one’s best self.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

“Everyone and everything in this life will cause us pain at some point, but what is being hurt, that's what we have to ask ourselves. When we have discarded those things that separate us from each other, there is no hurt.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

“And then she added that nothing was too lowly to feel love and to be made better by it.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

“A man is not his hands, as he can live without them, but his hands belong to him—they don't act on their own.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

“She was being released from the sorrows of the soil that had bred her.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

“Unless we love ourselves, our hearts are as good as a black hole all the love in the world can’t fill.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky

“Smell unlocks your past. It brings you back to another time you didn’t know you had in you to remember.”
― Nadine Bjursten, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky