“When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
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