“It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.”
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
― Traveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
― The Spectator Bird
― The Spectator Bird
“يجب أن تعرض منتجاتك لا أن تبقى على أمل أن يراها الزبائن مصادفة”
― As the Crow Flies
― As the Crow Flies
“A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
“Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the world - the figure of the sharp female called La Guillotine.
It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
It was the popular theme for jests; it was the best cure for headache, it infallibly prevented hair from turning gray, it imparted a peculiar delicacy to the complexion, it was the National Razor which shaved close: who kissed La Guillotine looked through the little window and sneezed into the sack.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
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