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“It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benefits than the freedom of no healthcare, bills that cannot be paid and starvation.”

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“Furthermore, I refuse to wear a burqa. Of all the burdens they've put on us, that's the most degrading. The Shirt of Nessus woudn't do as much damage to my dignity as that wretched getup. It cancels my face and takes away my identity and turns me into an object. Here, at least, I'm me Zunaira, Mohsen Ramat's wife, age thirty-two, former magistrate, dismissed by obscurantists without a hearing and without compensation, but with enough self-respect left to brush my hair every day and pay attention to my clothes. If I put that damned veil on, I'm neither a human being nor an animal, I'm just an affront, a disgrace, a blemish that has to be hidden. That's too hard to deal with. Especially for someone who was a lawyer, who worked for women's rights. Please, I don't want you to think for a minute that I'm putting on some sort of act. I'd like to, you know, but unfortunately my heart's not in it anymore. Don't ask me to give up my name, my features, the color of my eyes, and the shape of my lips so I can take a walk through squalor and desolation. Don't ask me to become something less than a shadow, an anonymus thing rustling around in a hostile place.”

Identity Sad Kabul Burqa Fanatism

Book:Swallows of Kabul

Source: Swallows of Kabul

“I hiked up a path and into the woods, thinking about what I should be thinking about and almost having a real feeling—a feeling like, this is really sad, this is a sad place to be, a sad part of my life, maybe just a sad life. The woods were not particularly beautiful. I was not impressed by the trees.”

Feelings Nature Sad Reflection Description Catherine Lacey Nobody Is Ever Missing Unimpressed

Book:Nobody Is Ever Missing

Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing

“The first one is always the hardest.”

Sad Heartbreaking Magnus Bane Will Herondale Tessa Gray Heartwrenching

Book:Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“But during those two months of fog . . . the saddest and the heaviest thing was to stand beside the sea. To be upon the beach yourself, and see the long waves coming in; to know that they are long waves, but only see a piece of them. And to hear them lifting roundly, swelling over smooth green rocks, plashing down in the hollow corners, but bearing on all the same as ever, soft and sleek and sorrowful, till their little noise is over.”

Sea Sad Ocean Beach

Book:Lorna Doone

Source: Lorna Doone

“Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?”

Happiness Relationships Sad Responsible Misery

Author:Scott Stabile

“I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.”

Broken Sad Emotions Concrete Crying

Book:The End Of Mr. Y

Source: The End Of Mr. Y

“But no, now I see I never meant to Ben what Ben meant to me. If there was anything I said which resonated in return, he found a better speech elsewhere. My romance went no further than his coat.”

Sad Unrequited Love Sara Baume A Line Made By Walking Unequal Affections

Book:A Line Made By Walking

Source: A Line Made By Walking

“We did not exist, the we we thought we'd always be.”

Relationships Change Sad Breakup Changing Catherine Lacey Nobody Is Ever Missing Growing Apart

Book:Nobody Is Ever Missing

Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing

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