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“I’m sorry,” I said again. Whenever someone tells you something sad, it’s the only thing you can think to say, even if you’ve already said it before.
“Or was it rather the intangible – the words we send out”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“Wisdom consists of ten parts: nine parts of silence, one part of words.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“You don’t fall in love in the midst of a civil war, when you are hemmed in by carnage and by hatred on all sides. You run away, as fast as your legs can carry your fears, seeking basic survival and nothing else.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“Pain, there was so much pain everywhere and in everyone. The only difference was between those who managed to hide it and those who no longer could.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“In nature everything talks all the time. Fruit bats, honeybees, wild goats, grass snakes … Some screech, others squeak, yet others caw, chatter, croak or chirp.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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