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“Young men pray for different things, of course, but some young men pray to honor the goodness of the men who raised them,”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago as slaves. While this layer of nativeness was not vast in proportion of the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it. An unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“the end of a couple is like a death, and the notion of death, of temporariness, can remind us of the value of things,”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“The fury of those nativists advocating wholesale slaughter was what struck Nadia most, and it struck her because it seemed so familiar, so much like the fury of the militants in her own city. She wondered whether she and Saeed had done anything by moving, whether the faces and buildings had changed but the basic reality of their predicament had not.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
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