Tania James > Quotes

“These stories are important to me, not because they happen to be about South Asians, but because they’re circling around a certain strain of loneliness that goes deeper than cultural dissonance, that has to do with the yearning to connect with someone else, or with some unreachable vision of home.”
― Tania James

“Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.”
― Tania James

“As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture of a politician's wife, shoulders held back, dignifIed yet modest.”
― Tania James, Atlas of Unknowns

“I am here because you were there”
― Tania James, Loot

“Only now does he know how much harder it is to cultivate ease in a world that is wary of you.”
― Tania James, Loot

“She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads.”
― Tania James, Loot

“They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.”
― Tania James, Aerogrammes: and Other Stories

“How an open palm could meet her cheek with anything but wonder, he would never understand.”
― Tania James, Atlas of Unknowns

“Jehanne but my true name is Jehan!”
― Tania James, Loot