And a mother without children is not a mother at all, and if I am not a mother, than I am nothing. Nothing. I am like sugar dissolved in a glass of w…

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You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down

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Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penet…

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She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized th…

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Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water lic…

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So all I'm saying is, everything that seems important--our quarrels, or philosophical differences--in the end, it doesn't matter much. You know? In t…

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And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, lef…

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This is love-not what we say to each other but what we not say. Sometime it just one look exchange. Sometime one word. But underlining everything we …

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All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would h…

- Thrity Umrigar