Basharat Peer Quotes

#1. Newspapers routinely refer to the missing men as 'disappeared persons', and their waiting wives are the 'half-widows'.

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#2. But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

Erich Maria Remarque

#3. Don't do that again, he growled in my mind.
Smiling, I thought. You have to admit it was cool.
Cool? You are a devastatingly beautiful angel of death. If death came for me and it looked like you, I'd go willingly.

Colleen Houck

#4. Mothers wash the bloodstained apparel of grooms On stream banks, Bridal wear burns to ash, Bridesmaids cry And the Jhelum flows.

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#5. Choose your friends because you feel most like yourself around them, because the jokes are easy and you feel like you're in your best outfit when you're with them, even though you're just in a t-shirt.

Caitlin Moran

#6. The world didn't give a shit. It didn't bestow. It took

Dennis Lehane

#7. I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.

M.I.A.

#8. Holdfast the Dream

Tom Townsend