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“He wasn’t even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man. Whereas it looked as if I was the one who’d come up emptyhanded. But I was sure about me, about everything, surer than he could ever be, sure of my life and sure of my death I had waiting for me… I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“Let's say Yusuf never let his guard down. After the whole well situation, he decides he's never going to open himself to loving or trusting anyone again. Let's say he keeps to himself at the minister's and Zulekha doesn't try to seduce him and he doesn't go to prison. But then what? He trades pain and betrayal for loneliness? For never experiencing intimacy or connection or feeling seen? You think that's preferable?”
― Hijab Butch Blues
― Hijab Butch Blues
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