Top 60 Christy Lefteri Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I don’t want anything anymore.”

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2. “There is so much silence here, but the silence is filled with chaos and madness.”

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3. “I believe I am unwell. I have no dreams left.”

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4. “Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”

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5. “Sometimes we create such powerful illusions, so that we do not get lost in the darkness.”

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6. “But when she was sad my world was dark. I didn’t have a choice about this. She was more powerful than I. She cried like a child, laughed like bells ringing, and her smile was the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. She could argue for hours without ever pausing. Afra loved, she hated, and she inhaled the world like it was a rose. All this was why I loved her more than life.”

— Christy Lefteri

7. “But in Syria there is a saying: inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”

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8. “When you belong to someone and they are gone, who are you?”

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9. “But what I loved most was her laugh. She laughed like we would never die.”

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10. “Sometimes I think that if I keep walking, I will find some light, but I know that I can walk to the other side of the world and there will still be darkness. It’s not like the darkness of the night, which also has white light from the stars, from the moon. This darkness is inside me and has nothing to do with the outside world.”

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11. “Aleppo is now like the dead body of a loved one, it has no life, no soul, it is full of rotting blood.”

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12. “I wish I could escape my mind, that I could be free of this world and everything I have seen in the last few years. And the children who have survived – what will become of them? How will they be able to live in this world?”

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13. “Having seen all this unfold convinced me that things can change, that hope can prevail, even in the most difficult of circumstances.”

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14. “Now, standing there with her face so close to mine, I could see the desire, the determination to hold on to an illusion, a vision of life, of Aleppo.”

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15. “It took me years to understand them, and once I did, the world around me never looked or sounded the same.”

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16. “I wanted to set forth the idea that among profound, unspeakable loss, humans can still find love and light – and see one another.”

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17. “The sound of birdsong never changes.”

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18. “Yuanfen, a mysterious force that causes two lives to cross paths in a meaningful way.”

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19. “They communicated without words from the most primitive part of the soul. I remembered her laughing about this, saying that she felt like an animal, and how she realized that we are less human in our times of greatest love and greatest fear.”

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20. “It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart.”

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21. “It’s amazing, the way we love people from the day we are born, the way we hold on, as if we are holding on to life itself.”

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22. “People are not like bees. We do not work together, we have no real sense of a greater good –.”

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23. “She cried like a child, laughed like bells ringing, and her smile was the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. She loved, she hated, and she inhaled the world like it was a rose. All this was why I loved her more than life.”

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24. “I wished that there was someone to guide me, to tell me what to do and which way to go, but I felt completely alone.”

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25. “What he is really saying is this: this is how the story must end; our hearts can bear no more loss.”

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26. “Inside the person you know, there is a person you do not know.”

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27. “Look at her, because I think she is disappearing.”

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28. “She looked into my eyes, as if she could see me. In that moment I could see her too, the woman inside, the woman I’d lost. She was there with me, her soul open and present and clear as light. For those few seconds I was no longer afraid of the journey, of the road ahead.”

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29. “Then Mustafa moved away from the table, put on his glasses, and carefully sharpened the small pencil with a knife, and, sitting down at his desk, he opened the black book and wrote: Name – My beautiful boy. Cause of death – This broken world.”

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30. “There is always one person in a group who has more courage than the rest. It takes bravery to cry out, to release what is in your heart.”

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31. “Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it.”

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32. “Since she had laughed and cried she had come back to life, in fragments.”

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33. “But if we had known, what would we have done? We would have been too afraid to live, too afraid to be free and to make plans.”

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34. “It was cold but sunny today! Now it’s raining! This English weather is like a madman!”

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35. “I will never forget the silence, that deep, never-ending silence. Without the clouds of bees above the field, we were faced with a stillness of light and sky. In that moment, as I stood at the edge of the field where the sun was slanting across the ruined hives, I had a feeling of emptiness, a quiet nothingness that entered me every time I inhaled.”

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36. “Name – My beautiful boy. Cause of death – This broken world.”

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37. “Afra and I have reached Leros and hope we will be leaving for Athens soon. If the Macedonian border is closed, then I will find another way. Don’t worry, Mustafa, I will not stop until I get there.”

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38. “I don’t like their queues, their order, their neat little gardens and neat little porches and their bay windows that glow at night with the flickering of their TVs. It all reminds me that these people have never seen war. It reminds me that back home there is no one watching TV in their living room or on their veranda and it makes me think of everything that’s been destroyed.”

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39. “I realized that Sami had been born into a world where everything could break.”

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40. “No, his dark thoughts came from somewhere else, as if he had already become afraid of losing everything, as if some echo from the future was reaching back and whispering in his ear.”

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41. “But I don’t like their queues, their order, their neat little gardens and neat little porches and their bay windows that glow at night with the flickering of their TVs. It all reminds me that these people have never seen war.”

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42. “You see, you have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine.”

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43. “Mustafa is the reason I came here. He is the reason that Afra and I kept going until we got to the United Kingdom. But now all I can do is stare at the reflection of my face on the screen. I do not want Mustafa to know what has become of me. We are finally in the same country, but if we meet he will see a broken man. I do not believe he will recognize me.”

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44. “Yuanfen. Fate. A force that draws two people together.”

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45. “It was like she’d forgotten everything else, the years leading up to the war, the riots, the dust storms, the droughts, the way we had struggled even then, even before the bombs, to stay alive.”

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46. “When I closed my eyes and breathed in the smell, I could pretend for a moment that I hadn’t seen the things I’d seen.”

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47. “You see?” he whispered. “You see? You have to relax and turn into nature. Then you will be fine.”

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48. “Because putting ourselves out there helps us to develop real empathy and understanding, and having the ability to structure and tell a story helps us to reveal truths and emotions to our readers.”

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49. “Afra loved, she hated, and she inhaled the world like it was a rose. All this was why I loved her more than life.”

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50. “What impact does the war have on the lives of the main characters?”

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