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“Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.”
“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.”
“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”
“We both knew no bounds to our escapism.”
“The name Aziza is of Arabic origin and means precious. I call her Sitti, the Arabic village word for my grandmother. Although Sitti stands true to her name, someone is always telling her she isnt p...”
“Life isn't only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others.”
“New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it.”
“I wasn't living, just existing.”
“When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.”
“My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.”
“Find someone who loves you more than you love them.”
“We are all made from the same seeds. It makes sense to say that compassion, love sunshine, water and nourishing seeds will grow into healthy, happy, fulfilled plants. You dont have to like a certai...”
“The thought of holy comes before holy is built. Focusing on thinking healthy, positive thoughts is a precursor to the Universe channeling divine energy through us. We see, feel, touch, and smell ho...”
“This isnt about convincing you whether or not there is a God. I believe God and the Universe exists. If you dont believe there is a greater force, then surely you believe that something inside of u...”
“You and I, your mother, Ahlam, we are from up there,' my father continued. 'We come from the stunning stars. We were just born in the wrong place. We were meant to live on another planet. The peopl...”
“I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far enough. Maybe that's why I'm an outcast.' He drew the spiral of Andromeda close to the Mil...”
“There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.”
“If you know you need to take some kind of risk, then get your relationship with God strong and go for it. You will never know what you could have or experience in life unless you try. God made you ...”
“We would survive even ourselves, as long as we were together.”
“In SLA management, you think services, see SLA, hear SLO, perform SLA management.”
