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And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)

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Varun Iyer’s Quotes

“which is why revulsion for Rupi Kaur’s poetry has become a millennial personality trait.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“I would have liked Allie better if she were a shy, bookish type I could have taken on shopping sprees at indie bookstores instead of an iPhone-addicted, TikTok-obsessed basic bitch in training.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose existence depended on the production of those words.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others

tags: alienation, author, writing, writing-process

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“personality makeover. Or maybe not. The more I think about it, the more this sounds like the plots of Ratatouille and Mulan combined.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“Publishing gossip, it turns out, is a lot of fun when you’re speculating about other people’s misfortune.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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