The sadness began later, in waves as crushing as the contractions had been,

Ruth Ahmed
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  1. He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. - Unknown

  2. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. - Mark Twain

  3. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. - E.B. White

  4. If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. - Fernando Pessoa

  5. I've been embarrassing myself since about birth. - Phil Lester

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  1. The alternatives in my life went through my mind. Unemployed, alone, despairing, watching daytime TV. That couldn't end well. Or helping people, like genuinely making a difference. Imagine waking up and doing that every day?

  2. As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life. Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

  3. People don't really change, they just adapt to circumstances.

  4. They say some couples are joined in heaven, and on Earth they look for their partner soul to be with. I knew I had found mine in her. And who can fight heaven?

  5. The fires of hell were seventy times hotter than the fires of the iron.

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