“It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Edhe pas tufanit ...furtune eshte jeta!”
― Qyteti i fundit
― Qyteti i fundit
“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
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