In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace.
— Nasir Kazmi
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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
- Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
How do we tell the sea that we are drowning on land?
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
— Khalil Gibran
In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace.
— Nasir Kazmi
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And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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