Shaima Salim
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“The world is under no obligation to be sane or orderly.”
― Places No One Knows
― Places No One Knows
“If we were having this conversation, that meant something was either wrong with me, or it was wrong with everybody else, and I had a basic enough understanding of probability to know that the odds did not rest with an entire planet.”
― Places No One Knows
― Places No One Knows
“I'm better at being sorry.”
― Places No One Knows
― Places No One Knows
“I want to be William Shakespeare and Galileo and Robert Frost. I want to be Sappho. I want to be Jane Austen. I want to be Holden Caulfield and Marilyn Monroe and Joan of Arc. I’m sad to think they came before me in history, they made their mark without me.
But they were there.
They happened.”
― Places No One Knows
But they were there.
They happened.”
― Places No One Knows
“It's hazardous, though, being that much to someone. When you're the yardstick that everything else is measure against, eventually, you just fail.”
― Places No One Knows
― Places No One Knows
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