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“Every place you go becomes a part of you. But none more so than home.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“New York?" Itto looks down at me. "You may be American, but you are still Syrian."
I rub the camel's coarse hair with my palms. "How?"
"A person ca be two things at the same time," Itto says. "The land where your parents were born will always be in you. Words survive. Borders are nothing to words and blood.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
I rub the camel's coarse hair with my palms. "How?"
"A person ca be two things at the same time," Itto says. "The land where your parents were born will always be in you. Words survive. Borders are nothing to words and blood.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can't be both, you've been lied to.”
― 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
“In the pockets of my heart without any words, I want to believe.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
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