Aline Menezes

“These kinds of lost, overeducated mama’s boys were perpetually stumbling down a corridor with two distant exits, one marked HESITANT INTELLECTUAL and the other SHYSTER.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

“We're people of the Orient. We know everything. And what we don't know, we can sense.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

“Whatever you may think of Judaism, Lyuba, in the end it’s just a codified system of anxieties.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline