“Sit on as many chairs as you can before you find the one chair on which you feel you belong.”
― Do Epic Shit
― Do Epic Shit
“But when she was sad my world was dark. I didn’t have a choice about this. She was more powerful than I. She cried like a child, laughed like bells ringing, and her smile was the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. She could argue for hours without ever pausing. Afra loved, she hated, and she inhaled the world like it was a rose. All this was why I loved her more than life.”
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
― The Beekeeper of Aleppo
“The pro is the amateur who simply showed up every day.”
― Do Epic Shit
― Do Epic Shit
“AS I CRAWLED INTO bed and put my arm around Helen it occurred to me, not for the first time, that there are few pleasures in this world to compare with snuggling up to a nice woman when you are half frozen.”
― All Creatures Great and Small
― All Creatures Great and Small
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