“But it is not an easy happiness. It is not a happiness without a cost.” A Thousand Splendid Suns (page 380) Khaled Hosseini SAY This quotation is found towards the end of A Thousand Splendid[…]
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what i see
The Stone Angel by Margeret Laurence “I went in and found what I needed, a mirror. I stood for a long time, looking, wondering how a person could change so much and never see[…]
The Thousand Splendid Suns Between Our Souls
“Laila watches Mariam glue strands of yarn onto her doll’s head. In a few years, this little girl will be a woman who will make small demands on life, who will never burden others,[…]
Restless Heart
It’s the song, they said. No, the sea. The luxury. The ship. It’s the sex, they whispered. Leo, said Aziza sheepishly. It’s all about Leo. “Everybody wants Jack,” Laila said to Mariam. “That’s what it[…]
“p r e s e n t a t i o n”
“‘In those days she could have prayed the angels themselves right down from heaven, if she’d been so inclined, and when she lay down on the moss and spread those great white thighs of hers,[…]
Ted Talk: Heir to a Garden Heart
part 1: (child) When I was a child, my favorite flowers were tulipa tardas, these tiny pale yellow star-shaped blossoms. In the spring, they are the first to bloom and the first to die,[…]
TED Talk: Love Yourself, You Deserve It
What Self-Love Is Loving yourself is the greatest gift you give yourself and to those who love you. Not everyone will appreciate that love- maybe it’s because of their preconceived notions, or that they haven’t[…]
Αυτή η δεμι-θεά είναι η ουσία της ποίησης
Ted Talk The eye of the universe bats its lashes at a a single sliver of splintered light blinking boastfully in the opaqueness– a crescent m☽☽n is birthed, carved by the Huntswoman’s ➳silver tipped arrows➳[…]
Wealth, Prosperity, Love, and Responsibility… and Several Other Terrible Things from The Great Gatsby: Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. The Great Gatsby; F Scott Fitzgerald One[…]
To English with Love
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” – Romeo and Juliet (Act I, Scene 5) Whether you stroll through the cobbled streets of Paris[…]