“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
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“She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But she sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far.... Mariam is in her own heart, where she shines with the bursting radiance of a thousand suns.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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