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Quote by Anthony Marra

“How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?”

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Anthony Marra is an American writer born in 1984. His works are known for their delicate emotions and profound themes, particularly for his skill in depicting the conflicts and complexities of human emotions in the Middle East. more

“The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief.”

Thinking Children Father Memories Forget Boys Blood Son Clean Forgotten Crowds Disbelief Insincerity Forget Him

Author:Yiyun Li

“Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.”

Way Littles Mother Effort Opposites Spoil Orphan Nannies Great Effort Loving Me

Book:A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

Source: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

“The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.”

Trying Firsts Long Tragedy Strikes Nuisance

Book:Kinder Than Solitude

Source: Kinder Than Solitude

“To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.”

Writing Ends Struggle Someday

Author:Yiyun Li

“What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.”

Ifs Way Writing Long Letting Go Distance Replaced Long Way

Book:Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

Source: Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life

“A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.”

Real Mutual Dreamer Mutual Trust

Author:Yiyun Li

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