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In the midst of all the death, he made me want to live

I’m exhausted we’re not even an afterthought. I’m exhausted we can’t even have basic human rights.

we didn’t while we’re still here Salma, because this is our country. This is the land of your father, and his father before him. Your history is embedded in this soil. No country in the world will love you as yours does”

Sometimes the people you love don’t leave you with goodbyes - they just leave you

The truth was this: winter had only just begun. The cold and darkness would go on for a long long time and they were alone up here, trapped in this cabin with dad. With no local police and no one to call for help. All this time dad had taught leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

Fridays are for cooking at home, Saturdays are for museums followed by dinner out and sometimes the theatre, and Sundays are for bagels and the times, then Chinese food for dinner while watching an old movie on TV

“Something good for you, something bad for you, and a change of scenery”

Not her ready to give up her medical career to go to Montana with him- THE FK

“There were places in our universe where the rules of time and space inverted, moments becoming a place where you could stay indefinitely”

Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises, but maybe it can’t exist without them either
Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow. Comprises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. No matter where we go, our love will outstretch to hold us..

“I smile at them, my two boys who should have broken me, but somehow saved me, each in his own way. Because of them, I know now what matters, and it is not what I have lost. It is my memories. Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain”

“Have a good life, Ari de Champlain”

“I trained to be a soldier, to fight for my country and make my family proud. It was an honorable choice. What will be thought of us upon our return? What will be thought of me?”

I think of the parallels here between the Germans in WW2 against the Jews compared to current day with Israel and Palestine- chilling.