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‘Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.
“Because a man who argues is ambitious, but a woman who argues is just a bitch.”
― By Any Other Name
― By Any Other Name
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Khalil Gibran”
― The Shadow Sister
― The Shadow Sister
“I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“He paused. He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite; it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his words strung together in the best possible way.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
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