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“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“Like most people, the name history gave them isn't what they call themselves.”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“I will wait by the gate until I see your face. I have waited a decade, haven't I, in this limited life? Waiting in the endless one would be no sacrifice. And Inshallah one day, I know I will see you approaching. You will look just as you did at twenty, that year you first left us, and I will also be as I was in my youth. We will look like brothers on that day. We will walk together, as equals.”
― A Place for Us
― A Place for Us
“Stories are powerful, but gather too many of the words of others in your heart and they will drown out your own. Remember that”
― The Map of Salt and Stars
― The Map of Salt and Stars
“She could hold in her heart a belief in Islam as well as the unwavering belief that every human had the right to choose who they loved, and how, and that belief was in exact accordance with her faith: that it is the individual’s right to choose, and the individual’s duty to empathize with one another. Didn’t the Quran itself contain the verse, We have created you from many tribes, so that you may know one another.”
― A Place for Us
― A Place for Us
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