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“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“We must also realize that nothing happens without a purpose. Nothing. Not even broken hearts. Not even pain. That broken heart and that pain are lessons and signs for us. They are warnings that something is wrong. They are warnings that we need to make a change. Just like the pain of being burned is what warns us to remove our hand from the fire, emotional pain warns us that we need to make an internal change. We need to detach. Pain is a form of forced detachment. Like the loved one who hurts you again and again and again, the more dunya hurts us, the more we inevitably detach from it. The more we inevitably stop loving it.”
― Reclaim Your Heart
― Reclaim Your Heart
Tabula Rasa
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— last activity Jul 17, 2012 08:23PM
It says a picture's worth a thousand words... But imagine if we could synergize them both... "Tabula rasa" is about lifetime learning process. We are ...more
Q&A with Haresh Daswani
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Join the self centered author Haresh Daswani as he discusses his book, Evolution of Insanity, hailed to be one of the worst books in existence by an a ...more
Ask John Green - January 23, 2013
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Join us on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 for a special discussion with award winning author John Green. John will be discussing his work, including his ...more
Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers
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Welcome and join us for our monthly group reads. We read Mysteries, Thrillers, and a variety of subgenres. True Crime, Cozy Mysteries, and Series are ...more
Jie’s 2024 Year in Books
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