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A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Mariam. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed, it won't stretch to make room for you. I'm the only one who loves you!
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A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing, Mariam. It isn't like a mother's womb. It won't bleed, it won't stretch to make room for you. I'm the only one who loves you!
Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
I will follow you to the ends of the world.
I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening. They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
Marriage can wait, education cannot.
If there's a God out there, then I would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork.
But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.