Kasady
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“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“...he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could be loved in no other way. When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being, the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity's potential for building a better world, so he prayed as a lament, as a consolation, and as a hope....”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“To love is to enter into the inevitability of one day not being able to protect what is most valuable to you.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
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