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“Happy memories are like lifesavers, keeping us buoyant amid stormy seas and changing times.”
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“And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.”
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“There's a woman asleep
in the body of salmon
behind the jagged teeth
and furious jaw,
parting the river
with wild desire.”
― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation
in the body of salmon
behind the jagged teeth
and furious jaw,
parting the river
with wild desire.”
― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation
“Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in the living room, with everyone there, and burned herself alive. Of course, if she hadn't done this, her father and brothers would probably have killed her anyway.”
― Infidel
― Infidel
“Theo, no matter what happens in life, you must always remember that we live in a mathematically precise world. Everything that happens has a reason and even though we rarely understand those reasons and often don’t even see them, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
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