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but isn’t that the best part? The stuff you can’t plan is sometimes what makes life exciting.’
“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“Every day seemed to stick to the day before it and the day after it, never separating itself enough to be memorable.”
― Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
― Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live
“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.”
― The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
― The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
“Most of us are great with change, as long as it was our idea.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
Dismantling the Whitewash
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For 49 years I've read mostly white folks opine on bible, theology, etc. Today I begin a new era - 49 years (let's hope!) with the writings of people ...more
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