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“Sometimes the people we call our own are worse than the ones we point our fingers at.”
Asha Thanki, A Thousand Times Before
“She understands the difference now, that there are times when observing is cowardice, yes, but that observing is also a form of action, of defiance - and the other side of this coin, as well: that taking action is sometimes arrogance, and other times absolutely necessary. The trick is knowing which, when.”
Asha Thanki, A Thousand Times Before
“I couldn't keep writing to her," Ma says. "I couldn't take care of Meenafai and your brother and the flat and the work and just...I couldn't spend my time wishing for something that wasn't going to come true."
Arni doesn't know what to say. Doesn't know how to fix the passage of time, the fear of never getting to love the one person you have always loved.”
Asha Thanki, A Thousand Times Before
“What an amazing and beautiful thing, to know where I’ve come from. What a frightening, ground-shifting, incomprehensible thing.”
Asha Thanki, A Thousand Times Before
“What am I but the calcium in my bones, strings of genetic material from my mother, and hers, and hers before her?”
Asha Thanki, A Thousand Times Before

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