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Quote by Mahmoud Darwish

“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”

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Mahmoud Darwish was a renowned Lebanese poet known for his profound poetry and strong nationalist sentiments. His works extensively explored the sufferings and hopes of the Palestinian people, profoundly influencing Middle Eastern literature. more

“She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn’t know, but the idea completely grossed me out. “In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries.” I wasn’t just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn’t fair.”

Knows Ideas Problem Dies Behinds Heard Cry Hair Fairs Ears Horrible Womb Maggots Banshees

Author:C.E. Murphy

“I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.”

Can Do Ignored Suggestions Extremist

Author:Tony Campolo

“For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, "I never realized my loss till this moment"? The same leg is cut off time after time.”

Ifs Moments Loss Grief Cutting Rounds Dare Legs Circles Repeats Emptiness Phases Novelty Emerging Spirals Grief Observed Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.”

Ideas Grief Divine Grieving Shattered Grief Observed Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?”

Ifs Force Trouble Creatures Shells Doomed Grief Observed Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house.”

Mean I Can Different Home Body House My Own Sky Lovers Empty Importance Spread Absence Accurate Empty Houses Stillbirth

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.”

Men Should Said Sometimes Sadness Mouths Murder Sad Man

Book:The Grapes of Wrath

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

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