Ryanna

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Ryanna’s Quotes

“How unlucky that one person has the power to determine the shape of another person's life.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

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“Yes, she loved him. The truth of that was like a wave that washed over and submerged her in salty torrents, knotting her hair and stinging her nose, pulling the life out from under her. Of course she loved him. The earth was round, day turned into night, he was in front of her and she loved him.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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“Where did they come from, her children? And how did they arrive already themselves, and unlike anyone else?”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

tags: children, parenting, personality

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“In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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“She would not have understood, then, that time is not linear but circular. There is no past, present, future. Roya was the woman she was today and the seventeen-year-old girl in the Stationery Shop, always. She and Bahman were one, and she and Walter were united. Kyle was her soul and Marigold would never die.”
― Marjan Kamali, The Stationery Shop

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