Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
To understand when nothing lefts to be done is the right punishment for the ruthless.
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
I missed you, Hasina. Oh, I missed you too. In Tariq's grimace, Laila learned that boys differed from girls in this regard. They didn't make a show of friendship. They felt no urge, no need, for this sort of talk. Laila imagined it had been this way for her brothers too. Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.
"You are afraid, Nana" she could've told her. "You are afraid that I may find the happiness that you have never known. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want me to have a happy life. It is you who have a despicable heart."
Every snowflake was the sigh of an unhappy woman somewhere in the world.