Constance S.

“Though he looked like any other Bengali he felt an allegiance with the foreigners now. He shared with them a knowledge of elsewhere. Another life to go back to. The ability to leave.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri

“For again Scrooge saw himself. He was older now, a man in the prime of life. His face had not the harsh and rigid lines of later years, but it had begun to wear the signs of care and avarice. There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“What dost thou know of suffering and oppression! I and my people know, but not thou.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

“He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper