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"Al-Husayni belonged to a family, and a group of local notables, who until the 1930s preached against the Zionist colonization while selling lands to the newcomers."
🛑🛑publicly resisted, but privately benefited, In our language, that kind of behavior would be called "harki".

"And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way."

R. F. Kuang mind's is impressive and imaginative. But it feels like something is missing.

one word, white feminism:
"What you must realize, Alice, is that you cannot just take refuge in feminism when it suits you."

“Loss of identity was a terrifying prospect. Who were you without your memories, your background, your relationships, your station? What if your lot in the next life was far worse than the life you’d just lived?"

"Alice sometimes had fantasies or an infinite library, a Borgian library of Babel in which one could be forever lost."
same girl same😭

Agatha WHO’S the killer 😭 I’m accusing everyone at this point.

How tenderly it warms the soul to return to Agatha Christie’s pages. nostalgia drifts through every line. I feel as if I grew up with Poirot and Hastings, and now I walk beside them for the last time, older, wiser, yet still enchanted by their world of mystery.
Poirot's final mystery, I’ll read it as a gentle farewell to the echoes of who we once were.

me, my coffee, and Iran

"You can no longer just push it away! Don’t you see? You say you love math. You say it’s your passion. But where is it in your life? If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain." Indeed!!!

"You can’t move forward without losing something,”

But I grew up not knowing the difference between a bearable life and an unbearable life, and by the time I discovered there was such a thing, it was too late

I wish I had been born in such an era. Just peace and tea, nothing more. 😂😅

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere"