Al otro lado del océano de Tahereh Mafi
Mentiría si dijera que no creía que mi presencia en su vida solo había empeorado las cosas para él.
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Al otro lado del océano de Tahereh Mafi
Mentiría si dijera que no creía que mi presencia en su vida solo había empeorado las cosas para él.
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Al otro lado del océano de Tahereh Mafi
Solo sabía que alguien me había hecho una foto sin mi pañuelo, sin mi consentimiento, y ahora estaba haciéndola circular. Era una especie de violación que jamás había experimentado. Quería gritar. Era mi pelo, quería bramar. Era mi pelo, mi rostro, mi cuerpo y mi maldito asunto decidir qué hacía con ellos. Por supuesto, a nadie le importaba. |
Al otro lado del océano de Tahereh Mafi
De pronto, parecía estar en todos lados. Tanto que empecé a preguntarme si quizás estaba equivocada. Quizás no era una simple coincidencia que nos topáramos constantemente. Era posible, en cambio, que siempre hubiera estado allí, y ahora empezara a verlo.
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Al otro lado del océano de Tahereh Mafi
Sencillamente... estoy harta de intentar explicarle al mundo por qué el racismo es malo, ¿vale? ¿Por qué debería ser esa mi responsabilidad?
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Al otro lado del océano de Tahereh Mafi
-Solo intenta ser feliz -me dijo por fin Jacobi-. Tu felicidad es lo único que estos imbéciles no toleran.
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Al otro lado del océano de Tahereh Mafi
-Creo que no te ves a ti misma como te ven los demás. Lo miré alzando una ceja. -Estoy bastante segura de que sé cómo me ven los demás. -Tal vez, algunas personas -dijo-. Sí, no me cabe duda de que hay personas horribles en el mundo. Pero hay muchos otros que te están mirando porque creen que eres interesante. |
An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I was becoming familiar with this feeling, these wings beating in my chest, this desperate acceleration of emotion. I couldn’t breathe around it, couldn’t see around it, couldn’t have imagined my heart could fissure and fuse, fissure and fuse on into infinity.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
“I still love you,” he whispered. “I still love you and I don’t know how to stop.”
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I felt something snap inside of me, felt something sever. I stared at him with a trembling hope. My soggy mind didn’t know what it was doing. My own name pressed against my tongue. Shadi meant joy, and all I ever did was cry. |
An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I felt a key click into the clockwork of my heart then, felt a terrifying turning in my chest that promised to keep me going, to buy me more time in this searing life. I felt it, felt my body restart with a climbing, aching fear. I feared that something was changing, that maybe I was changing, that my entire life was shedding a skin it had outgrown at last, at last. It scared me. I didn’t know how to handle the shape of hope. I didn’t know how such a thing might fit in my body. I was so afraid, so afraid of being disappointed. |
An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
Until tonight I’d never even considered we might be happy again; I’d never dreamed we might use the broken pieces of our old life to build something new. I’d thought, for so long, that this pain I clenched every day in my fist would be my sole possession, all I ever carried for the rest of my life.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
They probably knew I was up to no good even now, but perhaps they’d also seen something in my face, understood how I might be feeling, that I needed to leave. Run for my life.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
“God alone,” he said, his voice shaking, “God alone knows the depth of my regrets.”
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I had no right to drag Shayda down with me. Had no right to steal the joy from her body. It was not my fault that I could not bend my heart to behave as hers did, and it was not her fault that she couldn’t do the same for me. I supposed we really were just different, in the end.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I seldom understood my sister, and did not understand her then, either. I didn’t know how she could love a complicated man without it complicating her love. I didn’t know how her mind sorted and prioritized emotion; I didn’t know how she’d landed here—looking incandescent—after all we’d been through.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
It was made clear, time and time again, that it was not our place to exercise harsh, human judgment over those whose hearts we did not know.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I’d always seen religion as a rope, a tool to help us grow nearer to our own hearts, to our place in this universe.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I did not often believe in men, but I always believed in more.
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An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
I looked up then, searched the sky. When I found the moon I found God, when I saw the stars I saw God, when I let myself be inhaled by the vast, expanding universe, I understood God the way Seneca once did—God is everything one sees and everything one does not see. |
An emotion of great delight de Tahereh Mafi
Still, I felt a burgeoning hope when I thought of him, felt it push through the pain. I felt, for the first time, like one of the raging fires in my life had snuffed out.
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