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“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“I learned that the world didn't see the inside of you, that it didn't care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“أريد فهم إن كان المنع يتم لأن الفلسفة زندقة أم أن الحكام يتقربون للرعية بمنع الفلسفة؟”
― راوي قرطبة
― راوي قرطبة
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
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