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“And in those moments when the two of them are playing dead, I quietly climb back upstairs because, as time passes and as I spot my parents doing young, lighthearted things, I'm overrun by some cruel and preoccupying sense that I'm watching the memory of them.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Let me in, enclose me, tell me who I was.”
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“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“It is too much work to explain to them that you can stop and start again from nothing, that you can love the same person twice”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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