"Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree."

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Source : Kamila Shamsie (2011). “Salt and Saffron”, p.16, A&C Black

Kamila Shamsie

#Pride Quotes #Names Quotes #Tree Quotes

“But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?”
“Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.”

Source : Tahereh Mafi (2012). “Destroy Me”, p.9, Harper Collins
“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.”
“Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.”
“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.”

Source : Lloyd DeMause (1975). “The New Psychohistory”, New York : Psychohistory Press
“I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.”
“Please, I need you to save my ass.”
“How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.”

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