The Map of Salt and Stars
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can't be both, you've been lied to.”
“Don't forget,' he says, and Abu Sayeed looks up while he translates, holding the words back a little, 'stories ease the pain of living, not dying. People always think dying is going to hurt. But it does not. It's living that hurts us.”
“Stories are powerful, but gather too many of the words of others in your heart and they will drown out your own. Remember that”
“The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet”
“Every place you go becomes a part of you. But none more so than home.”
“But safety is not about never having bad things happen to you. It's about knowing that the bad things can't separate us from each other.”
“God smiles through the cracks in broken things.”
“Like most people, the name history gave them isn't what they call themselves.”
“People think that stories can be walled off, kept outside and separate. They can’t. Stories are inside you”
“I am the dust of stars inhaled.”
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maps, feminist, places, feminism, traveling, inspirational, traveller, heroism, women, home, strength, femininity, empowerment
