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“Stories are powerful, but gather too many of the words of others in your heart and they will drown out your own. Remember that”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“God smiles through the cracks in broken things.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“To be listened to is healing,”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“The whisky burns. How strange to try to drown pain with fire.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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