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The father turned his hat around in his hands as though he might find courage somewhere along the velvet trim.
“We looked upon a world unknown,
On nothing we could call our own.
Around the glistening wonder bent
The blue walls of firmament,
No cloud above, no earth below, —
A universe of sky and snow!
"Snowbound”
― Winter Poems
On nothing we could call our own.
Around the glistening wonder bent
The blue walls of firmament,
No cloud above, no earth below, —
A universe of sky and snow!
"Snowbound”
― Winter Poems
“But some of our past may always be hidden from us.”
― Under the Quilt of Night
― Under the Quilt of Night
“Don't carry around the hurtful words that others say. Drop them. they are not yours to keep.
They belong only to those who said them. ”
― The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
They belong only to those who said them. ”
― The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family
“My grandmother had learned to fly from the people who came before.
They were aunts and uncles and cousins who were brought here on huge ships, their wrists and ankles cuffed in iron, but, my grandmother said, nobody can ever cuff your beautiful and brilliant mind.”
― The Year We Learned to Fly
They were aunts and uncles and cousins who were brought here on huge ships, their wrists and ankles cuffed in iron, but, my grandmother said, nobody can ever cuff your beautiful and brilliant mind.”
― The Year We Learned to Fly
“Look for a lovely thing and you will find it,
It is not far —
It will never be far.
"Night”
― Winter Poems
It is not far —
It will never be far.
"Night”
― Winter Poems
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