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“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
“Mariamma, sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“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
“dog lives for you. A cat just lives with you.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
“Ammachi, when I come to the end of a book and I look up, just four days have passed. But in that time I’ve lived through three generations and learned more about the world and about myself than I do during a year in school. Ahab, Queequeg, Ophelia, and other characters die on the page so that we might live better lives.”
― The Covenant of Water
― The Covenant of Water
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