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there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of...more

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With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate...more

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Once, when I was little, I asked her if she’d cried when my father had fallen to his death.At the funeral? I mean, the burial?No, I did not.Because yo...more

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A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bar...more

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Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.

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On a high mountain I stood, And cried the name of Ali, Lion of God.O Ali, Lion of God, King of Men, Bring joy to our sorrowful hearts.

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That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.