“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“I found a sad little fairy
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy
Who was blown away by the wind one night.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy
Who was blown away by the wind one night.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
“The cities, the roads, the countryside, the people I meet - they all begin to blur. I tell myself I am searching for something. But more and more, it feels like I am wandering, waiting for something to happen to me, something that will change everything, something that my whole life has been leading up to.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewhere and the dreams that we dreamt were always at the mercy of someone else, someone occupying us, ruling us.”
― Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
― Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
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