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“You're a watchful guy. you know where that comes from?" I shook my head. "It comes from feeling out of place," he said. "Believe me. I know.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.”
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