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“Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
“I was the lucky one because I was protected by my youth. Je pouvais oublier. I still had the luxury of forgetting. He did not.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“For a time, I was quite literally at loss as to what to do with myself. For more than half a century I had looked after Suleiman.My daily existence had been shaped by his needs, his companionship. Now I was free to do as I wished, but I found the freedom illusory, for what I wished for the most had been taken from me. They say, find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind. And now that I had fulfilled mine, I felt aimless and adrift.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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