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She is a pure experiment asking: what does a person become when stripped to the core, raised in isolation? What might a woman be like under these conditions?
“The absence of food doesn't make a man forsake hunger-it only makes him hungrier .”
― River of Smoke
― River of Smoke
“I suppose everyone finds the despotisms of other peoples hard to comprehend.”
― Flood of Fire
― Flood of Fire
“To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
“Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“She remembered a word he'd often used, karuna-one of the Buddha's words, Pali for compassion, for the immanence of all living things in each other, for the attraction of life for its likeness. A time will come, he had said to the girls, when you too will discover what this word karuna means, and from that moment on, your lives will never again be the same.”
― The Glass Palace
― The Glass Palace
Sohini’s 2024 Year in Books
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232 books
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179 books
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