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“I would live your life so much better than you, if I had your face.”
― If I Had Your Face
― If I Had Your Face
“It's really hard to put into words things that are just a little bit not okay.”
― Earthlings
― Earthlings
“This is one of those moments that I want to bottle up and keep with me forever. Not because it's extraordinary, or because it's the kind of thing you would find in a Bollywood movie.
But because it's the kind of moment I could never have dreamed of having in a million years.”
― The Henna Wars
But because it's the kind of moment I could never have dreamed of having in a million years.”
― The Henna Wars
“The older we get, the more subtly we must undertake the double exercise of shedding aspects of ourselves so that we have the capacity to develop new ones.”
― Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
― Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning
“I repented and atoned as best I knew how; for twenty years I lived as an upright man, I offered prayers and fasted and gave alms to those less fortunate and made a pilgrimage to Mecca, and yet I was still haunted by guilt. Allah is all-merciful, so I knew the failing to be mine.”
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
― The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate
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