"Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die."

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Source : "Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2013 - Sixth-form Category". www.theguardian.com. May 06, 2013.

Waris Dirie

#Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes #Cutting Quotes

“I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized: ' From New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad, from the Easternmost to the Westernmost parts of the world, from Al-Qaeda to Daesh'. The extremists of the world have found each other and have put out the call: 'extremists of the world unite'. But are we united against the extremists?”

Source : "Iran's Dinner Diplomacy" by Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2014.
“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.”
“...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.”
“How much do I owe you?”
“Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope...”
“We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions”

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