Serena Syed
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“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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