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“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
“What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you. It’s not on you to convince him not to.”
― The Quiet Tenant
― The Quiet Tenant
“Even now I’m nothing but a thin skin covering a mountain of memories.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
“Anger always leaves a large void behind it, into which a flood of sorrow pours instantly, and keeps on flowing like a great river, without beginning or end.”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.”
― The Wall
― The Wall
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