Nassif Abou Khalil
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“I feel like maybe I should use up all my sadness now while I'm young. So, I don't end up all miserable when I'm old.”
― A Perfect Day to Be Alone
― A Perfect Day to Be Alone
“A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
“We've been lonely for so long, and this was why. We were so lonely we couldn't even know it.”
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
“I’d always believed I didn’t take up a lot of space in this world—that it hardly mattered whether I was here or not. When a person left, the people around them got used to their absence. That was true enough. But when I pictured the world without me, and the people I loved living on in it, I couldn’t help but feel like crying.”
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
“...There are so many people out there with lives far less fortunate than ours, and if we got even a taste of what it's like to be them it would crush us, we'd never make it through. Because we're lucky, we've got things pretty easy. But that's not something we need to feel ashamed of.”
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
― Dead-End Memories: Stories
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