Quotes About Reflection

J'aurais du etre plus gentille - I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret.

I wonder if he's ever tasted salt water or got dizzy watching the tide pull away from his feet

Peristiwa itu telah lama berlalu, tapi pengalamanku selama ini menunjukan bahwa kita tak akan pernah bisa mengubur masa lalu. Karena bagaimanapun, masa lalu akan selalu menyeruak mencari jalan keluar.

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Quiet is peace. Tranquillity. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life.

Con el tiempo he descubierto que lo que dicen del pasado, que es posible enterrarlo, no es cierto. Por que el pasado se abre paso a zarpazos.

All my life, I have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. I have been free to observe the glimmering world on the other side, to picture myself in it, if I like. But I have always been contained, hemmed in, by the hard, unyielding confines of the existence

All her life, Parwana had made sure to avoid standing in front of a mirror with her sister [...] But in public, every stranger's eye was a mirror. There was no escape

but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

C'était toujours pareil avec les cerfs-volants. Vos pensées dérivent en même temps qu'eux.

Ik deed een stap achteruit en het enige wat ik zag was regen door de ramen die wel van smeltend zilver leken

Il faut se donner un but dans la vie et vivre en conséquence dit-on. Sauf que parfois, c'est seulement après avoir vécu que votre vie se révèle pourvue d'un but et sans doute, un but auquel vous n'avez jamais pensé.

This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

My eyes returned to our suitcases. They made me sad for Baba. After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life: one disappointing son and two suitcases.

I wondered how and when I'd become capable of causing this kind of pain.

There was so much goodness in my life.So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Kata Ayah, mimpi selalu punya arti.

Dicono: trovati uno scopo nella vita e perseguilo. Ma talvolta è solo dopo aver vissuto che si riconosce che la vita aveva uno scopo, e probabilmente uno scopo architettato dal caso.

E, no final das contas, a pergunta que acabava sempre se impondo era: como é que eu, entre todas as pessoas, poderia punir alguém pelo seu passado?

Ben presto si sarebbe ritrovato adulto. E allora non ci sarebbe stato modo di tornare indietro, perché l'essere adulto era qualcosa di simile a ciò che suo padre una volta aveva detto a proposito dell'essere un eroe di guerra. Quando si diventa eroe, si muore eroe.

What he yearned for was his old life. What

shade of a wall, listlessly fingering their prayer beads

Entering my childhood home is a little disorienting, like reading the end of a novel that I'd started, then abandoned, long ago.

You like big words? I´ll give you one: perspective. That´s what I´m doing here, Laila. Making sure you don´t lose perspective.´ What turned Laila´s stomach the rest of the night was that every word Rasheed had uttered, every last one, was true.