Dawne L

“But some feelings take a long time, they sort of grow behind your back. You turn around thirty years later and there they are.”
― Elizabeth Hay, His Whole Life

“Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

“When you take things personally, she knew, the world becomes very small. It is you and nothing is smaller. When you manage not to do that, the world opens wide.”
― Elizabeth Hay, His Whole Life

“he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate”
― Salman Rushdie, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights