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“She was a person for whom kindness was a very ordinary thing, who believed that the only acceptable excuse for not having a bird feeder in the back garden was that you had one in the front garden.”

i don’t know what these Irish authors have in their veins, but the way they make ordinary things feel sacred is just incredible

I love love love love love the beautiful descriptions

So far I don’t like this, shocking 🥲

I have not picked up a book in a MONTH. That said, the last book I read was also by this author, it blew away my mind, so here we go again :)

مش قادرة امشي بالكتاب بدون ما احمل حقد وكراهية وغضب وقهر تجاه هاي الفئة الملعونة… كل جملة وكل كلمة وكل تذكير لما فعلوا وسعوا خرابًا بأرضنا وسفكوا دمنا بتظلها تذكرني بالشهداء… يارب ثبت علينا العقل والدين

استشهاد الصحفي صالح الجعفراوي… يارب ارحمه وتقبله. ألمتنا قلوبنا كثيرًا
يارب انتقم…

الكتاب حتى الآن رائع جدًا، ومن أمتع ما قرأت في الجمع بين الجانب التاريخي والديني

“I dip the ladle and bring it to my lips. This water is cool and clean as anything I’ve ever tasted. It tastes of my father leaving, of him never having ever been there, of having nothing after he was gone.”

This is SO BEAUTIFULLY written!!!!

“I’m at a stop where I can neither be what I always am, nor turn into what I could be.”

“Her hands are like my mother’s hands, but there’s something else in them, too. Something I have never felt before and have no name for. I feel at such a loss for words, but this is a new place, and new words are needed.”

beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful

الحمد لله ربّ العالمين، الذي منَّ علينا بالحياة لنشهد هذه الفرحة.
المجد لغزّة… لأهلها الصامدين، ولشهدائها الأبرار، ولأسراها الأحرار، ولجرحاها الأبطال.
المجد لغزّة… ببحرها ورملها وهوائها

idk how to feel about this book

“She had a very sudden desire to touch him”
Girllll he’s possessed, get a hold on yourself 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I’m sick of this world :)
“A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness.”

Ok so far not much is happening

“We say God is the light of the heavens and the earth, that it’s a light as steady and protected as a lamp behind glass and shines as brightly as a star. That it is always there to guide us.”
Verse 24:35 🥹🥹
[Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. His light1 is like a niche in which there is a lamp, the lamp is in a crystal, the crystal is like a shining star…]

“She opened the tin of stolen pastries and handed one to him. “Trust me, the illicitness makes them taste sweeter.”
Nahri’s hilarious, I love her

we are so back

طبعًا بماطل بالقراءة لأنه من أفضل الكتب اللي قرأتها

NOW I KNOW, Dara is literally the Darkling (from s&b) - they’re so similar it’s actually crazy

Reading about tragedies to escape real life tragedies, love that for me

قررتُ أن أبدأ به لأنه ذكرني بكتاب قرأته للمؤرخ الإسرائيلي إيلان بابي، الذي تناول أيضاً ثغرات انهيار إسرائيل من الداخل. الفرق أنّ هذا العمل نُشر قبل عقود، بينما كتاب إيلان نُشر قبل أشهر قليلة

“I renounced my Afshin. I married your son. I bow my head while you sit on a shedu throne. But if you try to take this from me, I will rip this city and your family apart.”
Go queen

i genuinely want to see muntadhir dead more than his father

“There were tears in the chef’s eyes. “I will carry your compliments to my grave,” he wept.”
These people are insane lol

im here for the drama ❤️‍🔥