“When love dries in a marriage, the children become mortar for the bricks. When the children leave, the bricks just sit atop each other. When the children die, the bricks tumble.”
― First Phone Call from Heaven
― First Phone Call from Heaven
“It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us count until we lose it.”
― Year of Wonders
― Year of Wonders
“But God is only a white cold eye, a quarter-moon poised above the smoke, blinking, blinking, as the city is gradually pounded to dust.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“What is false about hope?”
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
― The First Phone Call from Heaven
“When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.”
― The Bookseller of Kabul
― The Bookseller of Kabul
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