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For a while she worried about him in California with all those serial killers and vegetarians but she figured a Marine could take care of himself.
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“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
“the dreams we keep to ourselves, the heartbeats we skip beside our lovers, the voids we try to fill and can never adequately articulate”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“Upon deciding to travel to the island, Kostas had called him, hoping he could be the bridge that would take him to Defne, knowing that bridges appear in our lives only when we are ready to cross them.”
― 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
“Or was it rather the intangible – the words we send out”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
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