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So, Layla became a lawyer. And not just any lawyer, but a corporate lawyer living in the capital. Sure, Layla once pictured herself defending the rights of refugees or victims of crime, not helping millionaires hoard their wealth, but
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“He thought among the best reasons to emigrate was to pack one’s own bag and carry it oneself, to have no servants, to clean one’s own house.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“Sonia read Nabokov and found rising in her—like mountains and ocean without end—the unbearable longing for a book that could only be cured by writing. She picked it up and dropped it, picked it up and dropped it.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“Perhaps if you kept yourself small, kept moving, kept as distant from your own life and fate as it was possible to be, the odds would be in your favor in this regard. Just as your luck would fail to find you, so would your tragedy.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“You see, the secret is you must marinate the fillet in ground mustard and lime before you batter and fry—that magically brings out the flavor!”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
“Babita didn’t mention that The Hound of the Baskervilles was one of Sunny’s favorite books, by a favorite author he always read on the night train to Allahabad, and that he had been reading this book when he had first seen Sonia, which was an alignment of no use to observe, yet an alignment nonetheless.”
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
― The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
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