She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren …

Khaled Hosseini
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She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. ✨ Khaled Hosseini (2009). A Thousand Splendid Suns, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing
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