“The opposite of peace is not war. The opposite of peace is inertia.”
― The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
― The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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“Anyone who tells you that a greater symphony exists than the breath in your body is lying.”
― The Attack
― The Attack
“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
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“Not all of us are horrid,’ he told her once. ‘Not all of us think of all Indians as our subjects.’ All Indians? Us? She did not know how to explain that she had never trusted these words and did not know what was worse, being a part of all or not, as it seemed the decision had never been hers to make. Nor did she know how to explain that it was not a question of what one or two might think. It had more to do with the patterns inherited, the lies inhabited, though she could not find the words, and so she said nothing.”
― The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
― The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
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