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“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important...People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear." -When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine”
― Jhumpa Lahiri , Interpreter of Maladies

“Something happened when the house was dark. They were able to talk to each other again.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“We live here now, she was born here.” She seemed genuinely proud of the fact, as if it were a reflection of my character. In her estimation, I knew, I was assured a safe life, an easy life, a fine education, every opportunity. I would never have to eat rationed food, or obey curfews, or watch riots from my rooftop, or hide neighbors in water tanks to prevent them from being shot, as she and my father had.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he can not conquer. While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had missed his wife and daughters for so many months.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

“I see you in every fire that lights.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“When I was thirteen, I got this award at school … I got the highest CAT test scores out of anyone who’d ever taken them at our school …” One of his legs was bobbing up and down. He shook his head and laughed. “And I was so… I thought I was so smart. I thought I was the smartest person in the whole world.”

He shook his head.

“But now … I’m just … when you get to this age, you realise that you’re not anyone special after all.”

He was right. I wasn’t special.

It’s … all I’ve got,” he said. “This is the only special thing about me.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“On the one hand I'm thinking yeah this work is important, like, it's really important that I get the grades and get accepted, but on the other hand my brain is just like, I don't know, I just don't care, it'll all be alright in the end or something, like, so it's getting to the point where I just don't do any work that I don't have to, I only do the things that I have to do, but I just don't care? I don't know, this doesn't make any sense...”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“It'd take hours to explain," I said.
"I'd listen to you for hours," he said.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I just sort of want to say something before we continue.
You probably think that Aled Last and I are going to fall in love or something. Since he is a boy and I am a girl.
I just wanted to say--
We don't.
That's all.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“She had taken his private space - his home - and destroyed it. She took everything he loved and ruined it.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I don't like other people inside my room because I'm terrified they're going to uncover one of my secrets, like my fan art habits or my internet history or the fact that I one hundred per cent still sleep with a teddy bear.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Hello.
I hope somebody is listening.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I wonder – if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Everyone's different inside their head.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“And I’m platonically in love with you.”
“That was literally the boy-girl version of ‘no homo’, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I don't know, I just don't care, it'll all be all right in the end or something, like, so it's getting to the point where I just don't do any work if I don't have to, I only do the things I have to do, but I just don't care? I don't know, this doesn't make any sense...”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Well... the thing is... I don't actually think I care about English literature. I don't want to do it at university."

Aled looked startled. "Don't you?"

"I'm not sure I want to go at all."

"But... that was -That was what you cared about more than anything."

"Only because I thought I had to." I said. "And because I was good at it. I thought that was the only was I was going to have a good life. But... that's wrong.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Bedrooms are windows to the soul.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Old and rusty, aching and sleepy. Wandering through the city, lost, circling, alone. No gears left in my heart, no code whirring in my brain. Just kinetic energy, being pushed gently onward by other forces—sound, light, dust waves, the quakes. I'm as lost as ever, friends. Can you tell?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“I kept peeling off layers of my personality, but I seemed to be going in circles. Every time I thought I’d worked out what I really enjoyed, I started to second-guess myself. Maybe I just didn’t enjoy anything any more.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“Radio's trapped in Universe City. And someone's finally heard him. Someone is going to rescue him.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“What does total androgyny look like, when gender isn't even anything to do with appearance and voice?”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence

“The stars are always on your side.”
― Alice Oseman, Radio Silence