What Counts In A Good Story Is

Because Of That She Had Never Had Enough Energy To Be Herself, A Person Who, Like Everyone Else In The World, Needed Other People In Order To Be Happy. But Other People Were So Difficult. They Reacted In Unpredictable Ways, They Surrounded Themselves With Defensive Walls, They Behaved Just As She Did, Pretending They Didn't Care About Anything. When Someone More Open To Life Appeared, They Either Rejected Them Outright Or Made Them Suffer, Consigning Them To Being Inferior, Ingenuous.

We Must Play Music Quietly, Talk Quietly, Weep In Private, Because I Am The All-powerful Zahir, Who Lays Down The Rules And Determines The Distance Between Railway Tracks, The Meaning Of Success, The Best Way To Love, The Importance Of Rewards.

Love Is Not A Habit, A Commitment, Or A Debt. It Isn't What Romantic Songs Tell Us It Is - Love Simply Is.

Elegance Is Not An Outer Quality, But A Part Of The Soul That Is Visible To Others.

Sometimes, Certain Of God's Blessings Arrive By Shattering All The Windows. (brida)