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“Dear child, some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
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“If man's capacity for the fantastic took up as much of his imagination as his capacity for cruelty, the worlds, seen and unseen, might be very different.”
― Alif the Unseen
― Alif the Unseen
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”
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