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“She cried like a child, laughed like bells ringing, and her smile was the most beautiful I've ever seen. She loved, she hated, and she inhaled the world like it was a rose. All this was why I loved her more than life.”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“I killed him because I am Turkish and he was Greek. But when I looked at his face, as he looked up at me blindly, I couldn't see what separated us.”

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Book:A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible

Source: A Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible

“They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear.”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Now, standing there with her face so close to mine, I could see the desire, the determination to hold on to an illusion, a vision of life, of Aleppo.”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her.”

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Book:Songbirds

Source: Songbirds

“Sometimes I think that if I keep walking, I will find some light, but I know that I can walk to the other side of the world and there will still be darkness. It's not like the darkness of the night, which also has white light from the stars, from the moon. This darkness is inside me and has nothing to do with the outside world.”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“What he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can bear no more loss.”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“I wish I could escape my mind, that I could be free of this world and everything I have seen in the last few years. And the children who have survived - what will become of them? How will they be able to live in this world?”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”

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Book:The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Source: The Beekeeper of Aleppo