Anjali Enjeti > Quotes

“His heart pounded into her palm like Morse code.”
― Anjali Enjeti, The Parted Earth

“People are inherently good, her mother had told her once, they’re just not inherently good all of the time.”
― Anjali Enjeti, The Parted Earth

“Her identity had begun to be defined by the holes family members left behind. Perhaps she needed to move forward, not backward.”
― Anjali Enjeti, The Parted Earth

“Mom, we’ve been wondering for almost twenty years why we couldn’t help Dad get better. I blamed him. You blamed yourself. But for him to live with this kind of agony for twenty years, and choose to stay with us for as long as he did, that’s the deepest kind of love, isn’t it? That’s true courage.”
― Anjali Enjeti, The Parted Earth

“As a writer in pain, I can’t afford to yield an inch to guilt or regret for not writing.” — Anjali Enjeti (she/her)
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― Anjali Enjeti

“the feeling of interconnectedness between her family members, between the generations, the knowledge that she was a part of a larger story of the people she loved and their histories.”
― Anjali Enjeti, The Parted Earth

“Origami signifies the kinds of transformation that refugees must make to start a new life. They must create something new, something beautiful, from a blank page.”
― Anjali Enjeti, The Parted Earth