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“No, Zahra, dear, no! Gentleness isn’t weakness.’ Her hand, suspended in midair, trembled with emptiness and fell to her side. ‘How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that’s when you’re at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that’s when you find within the greatest strength of all.’ She smiled, oh, a smile of such ancient wisdom, her face shone with love. She waited, but when I wouldn’t smile back, she walked past me.”
― Dancing in the Shadows of Love
― Dancing in the Shadows of Love
“How easy it is to be bitter or angry; that's when you're at your weakest! But when you choose to be kind, to forget your hurt, that's when you find within the greatest strength of all.”
― Dancing in the Shadows of Love
― Dancing in the Shadows of Love
“The past could never be hidden [we must embrace] it with new hope and new dreams so that both past and present form one unified trunk that continues to shelter our people”
― The Weight of a Feather and other stories
― The Weight of a Feather and other stories
“Even though he'd been born into a country unshackling itself from its colonial masters, even though he'd lived through nearly twenty years of freedom, nothing much changed for you when you were poor.”
― The Weight of a Feather and other stories
― The Weight of a Feather and other stories
“Ordinary people can be heroes too,' he said, 'if they want to be.”
― Dancing in the Shadows of Love
― Dancing in the Shadows of Love
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