Ashpreet

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Ashpreet’s Quotes

“When you name a thing, you are giving a future. But you are also giving a past. A place in the order of things.”
― Hala Alyan, I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir

tags: birth, identity

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“That feeling of knowing someone will call your name—that’s the feeling I got when your ma met my eyes. I knew I was almost home.”
― C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

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“What else can you offer the earth, which has everything? What else can you give but something of yourself? A homemade ceremony, a ceremony that makes a home.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

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“For a country like Canada, a nation of immigrants and nomads, people uprooted and replanted in a thousand myriad ways, "going home" is a universal longing, a fantasy we all dream but can never truly satisfy”
― Larry Grant, Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong

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