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“Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.”

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This novel delves into the complex dynamics and emotional connections between two sisters, weaving together their personal stories and the impact of their shared past. more

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Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is a renowned American contemporary novelist, born on March 16, 1952. Her works are known for their dreamlike narrative style and rich imagination, which have won her a large following among readers. more

“Sometimes, Soraya Sleeping next to me, I lay in bed and listened to the screen door swinging open and shut with the breeze, to the crickets chirping in the yard. And I could almost feel the emptiness in Soraya's womb, like it was a living, breathing thing. It had seeped into our marriage, that emptiness, into our laughs, and our love-making. And late at night, in the darkness of our room, I'd feel it rising from Soraya and setting between us. Sleeping between us. Like a newborn child.”

Source: The Kite Runner: Rejacketed

“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.”

“The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.”

Reason Lasts History Logic Function Infinity Reason And Logic

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.”

Firsts Lines Careers Poverty First Time Hunger Satisfaction Bunch Climbs Tolerable Actually Living

Book:Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster

Source: Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster

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