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Lara Zuberi
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United States
Genre
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Khaled Hosseini, Daphne du Maurier, Eric Segal,Kamila Shamsie
Member Since
July 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/larazuberi
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The Lost Pearl
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Torn Pages
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The Lost Pearl
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Nightingale on The Highest Branch
Although I knew she was ninety-two, and I was aware that she had been afflicted with Covid, I was hoping that the strength of her lungs would prevail—but alas, her time had come. The day Lata Mangeshkar passed, I mourned for her like I would for a person I knew well, someone whose absence felt tangible and painful. It has taken me a while to write this, as I am still absorbing the impact of this m
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Master Lists for Writers: Thesauruses, Plots, Character Traits, Names, and More
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Finding My Way: A Memoir
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“How do you end a story that’s not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn’t there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?”
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“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
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“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
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“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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