“I had thought of my Ancestors as ancient, with a history of torment etched on their weathered faces. But these were children, ranging in age from five harvests to fifteen, with gleaming faces and vigorous frames. I didn’t understand their youth. I understood only that they had been in the world before I came to it, and that they now belonged to some other place.”
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“She looked up and saw, crouching on a branch, a creature from another world.”
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and I’m everything I see, I see him.”
“کسی که سزاوار نام انسان باشد همیشه احساس ندامت می کند و این خود محکی برای شناختن انسان هاست.”
“I was their plaything and their idol and something better – their child”