“Where do you start someone’s story when every life has more than one thread and what we call birth is not the only beginning, nor is death exactly an end?”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“The ocean makes its music; the wind does its dance. We hold on. At first we hold on to one another, but then it starts to feel like we are holding on to something even bigger than that. Greater.”
― Every Day
― Every Day
“It’s impossible to get to know people deeply and not come to like them.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“You’re too precious to put into words. I think … it’s like one of Theodore’s buttons. If you asked him why he cared about them so, he would tell you it’s because they exist at all.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“The world is unfair, said Meryem. "If a stone falls on an egg, it is bad for the egg; if an egg falls on a stone, it is still bad for the egg.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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