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Sofia Khan is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik

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we write to get rid of the taste certain morsels of life leave us with.

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“They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn't know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn't have me. You can believe it or not - I'm less foreign here than I was in China.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“I think I love you, Cal." -Abra
I'm not good." -Cal
Because you're not good." -Abra”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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“She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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