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“Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“So how long have I loved you for? Womb to tomb, sweetheart? Since before I was even here at all.”
― The Thirteen Letters
― The Thirteen Letters
“I should be Adam. God was proud of Adam. But Satan's the one I sympathise with. For I was cast out, like Satan, though I did no wrong. And when I see others content, I feel the bile rise in my throat, and it tastes like Satan's bile.”
― Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley
― Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley
“It was like taking a hammer to the home I had built in the Arabic language word by word, over many years in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. My increasing strength in English correlated negatively with my Arabic. The more I felt at home in English, the less Arabic felt like one. So much so that learning a new language was to acquire a new wound. Multilingualism meant multi-wounding.”
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“Another reason it's dangerous to acknowledge that you were unloved is that it implies the possibility that your mother may have been right-you are unlovable.”
― When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
― When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life
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