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I wanted to like this book, but it just didn't work for me. The pacing and flow was off, and I didn't enjoy the lack of subtlety.
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“The world’s not a good place for a child.” She frowns. “That’s not true. Look around.” I do. And wonder what she can see that I can’t. What I can see is an ocean rising so swiftly that this extraordinary island, this home, will be gone in
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“Question: If an Egyptian cannot speak English, who is telling his story?”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love just these few people, to know myself capable of that, I would suffer every day of my life.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“he gathered antigonê close in his arms again. choking, his blood bright red on her white cheek. and now he lies dead with the dead, and she is his at last, his bride in the houses of the dead.”
― The Oedipus Cycle
― The Oedipus Cycle
“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“If you have documented a revolution, how can you bring yourself to capture anything else on those same streets where your brothers stained the asphalt with their lives?”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
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