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And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.
– Hisham Matar

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  2. Can you become a man without becoming your father? – Hisham Matar
  3. Can you become a man without becoming your father? – Hisham Matar
  4. I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth. – Hisham Matar
  5. One’s nature is like a mountain – Hisham Matar
  6. There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible. – Hisham Matar
  7. Carrying a grudge in your heart or in your mind is like carrying a bunch of thorns on your body. You are just choosing to prick yourself with it. – RVM
  8. As always, she was carrying the washing. Rudy was carrying two buckets of cold water, or as he put it, two buckets of future ice. – Markus Zusak
  9. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms. – Richelle Mead
  10. The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line. – Erin McCarthy
  11. Put me down.--œNope.- He held her snuggled to his bare chest, tipping her up so he could rub his cheek against hers. -œI like carrying you. – Cherise Sinclair
  12. Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn’t belong to time. That’s why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you. – Salil Jha
  13. They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets – Darnell Lamont Walker
  14. When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked. – Ray Bradbury
  15. A house is just a house for its structure and matter but when you add to this a warm caring family the house transforms into a home. – Victor Manan Nyambala
  16. I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. – Gaston Bachelard
  17. A house made of ice in the middle of desert! And that house is the house of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  18. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  19. To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. – Peter Wessel Zapffe
  20. The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  21. Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth. – Brandon Sanderson
  22. It isn’t about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along. – Ishmael Beah
  23. Beauty is not defined by your physical features. It is defined by the heart inside your chest and the love that flows through it. – Imania Margria
  24. There is a chest inside my heart, where a magical world is hidden. With my novels, I hand to you the key to that world. – PJ Mann
  25. Let the wet earth embrace you firmly, soundly. She needs to be revived, she needs to beat like a heart full of adrenaline inside a chest. – VS Atbay
  26. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.’Subliminal messaging works! – Nick Jimbanis
  27. Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all? – Martina Boone
  28. I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren’t the same thing. – Maggie Stiefvater
  29. Knowing why you are is your purpose.Knowing who you are is your style.Knowing what you are is your character – Debasish Mridha
  30. Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come. – Kowtham Kumar K
  31. Remember, to get what you’ve never had, you must do what you’ve never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did. – Craig Groeschel
  32. Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. – Oscar Wilde
  33. Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  34. I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless. – Barbara T Cerny
  35. The trauma said, -˜Don’t write these poems.Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. – Andrea Gibson
  36. I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me. – Haruki Murakami
  37. A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
  38. You know what they say. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.--œIf my heart grows any fonder, it’s going to hop out of my chest and into yours. – Olivia Cunning
  39. I still can remember some of the poems and proverbs, I learnt in my childhood. – Laillah Gifty Akita
  40. Remember that good poets too can write bad poems! Talent has also a talent to be untalented! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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