What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It’s a woman, free to live as she wants.
What I do know now, and didn’t know then is that, in the long run, motive matters more with good deeds than it does with bad. When all the guilt and shame for the bad we’ve done have run their course,...
What I am saying is that reality—as you see it, and as most people see it—is nothing more than an illusion. There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into t...
We’d saved him as much by joining in his exultation as we had by witnessing his shame. And all of it depended upon our action, our interference in his life, because no man is saved without love.
To make sure none followed where you ledI used my hair to cover our tracks.Sun set on the island of our bednight roseeating echoesand we were beached there, in tangles of flicker, candles whispering a...
The wonder isn’t that love finds us, as strange and fated and mystical as that is. The wonder is that even when we never find it, even when love waits in the wings of dream too long, even when love do...
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
Tell people as much as they need to know, he said. I remember that he was smiling when he said it, like there was nothing to it. And ask people for help, he said. You’ll be all right … Don’t worry … I...
Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you..
So … when will it be the time for the getting on the train?’ ‘I think … a little bit almost quite very soon, and not long.
She did it for him. She would’ve done anything for him. Some women are like that. Some loves are like that. Most loves are like that, from what I can see. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded...
Our life, it probably began inside of the ocean,’ Johnny said quietly. ‘About four thousand million years before now. Probably near hot places, like volcanoes, under the sea.’ I turned to look at him....
Non sopporto i politici, è gente che ti promette un ponte anche se non ci sono fiumi.
My culture had taught me all the wrong things well. So I lay completely still, and gave no reaction at all. But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or wa...
Le antiche leggende sanscrite narrano di amori predestinati, di connessioni karmiche fra anime destinate a incontrarsi, urtarsi e incastrarsi a vicenda. Le leggende dicono che l'amata si riconosce all...
L'unico momento in cui smetteva di odiarsi era quando il rischio era talmente grande da costringerlo ad agire senza pensare e senza provare nessuna emozione.
L'anima non ha cultura. L'anima non ha nazione. L'anima non ha colore, accento stile di vita. L'anima è per sempre. L'anima è una. E quando il cuore prova un momento di verità, di dolore, l'anima non...
Khader aveva cercato di spiegarmi che ogni uomo ha la possibilita di cambiare il proprio destino. Avevo sempre pensato che il fatto fosse immutabile: determinato al momento della nascita e fisso come...
Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.
It's said that you can never go home again, and it's true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You must go back, and you always go back, and you can never stop going back, no matter how h...