America had six time zones. Lina’s father called it the land of dreams, and so it seemed. For what other country would aspire to occupy the past, present, and future, all at the same time?
“I wanted to wrench the stars from the sky and fling them at our feet.”
― If You Leave Me
― If You Leave Me
“Like most girls, she’d already learned that pretty exposes you and pretty hides you and like most girls, she hadn’t yet learned how to navigate the difference.”
― The Mothers
― The Mothers
“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“We spent so much time looking for pieces of ourselves in other people that we never realized they were busy searching for the same things in us.”
― Mostly Dead Things
― Mostly Dead Things
“You want a place to be like it was in the book but it’s not a place in a book it’s just words.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
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