“Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“I can hear the change in Kaz's breathing when he looks at you."
"You... you can?"
"It catches every time, like he's never seen you before.”
― Six of Crows
"You... you can?"
"It catches every time, like he's never seen you before.”
― Six of Crows
“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
“Though no longer pregnant, she continues, at times, to mix Rice Krispies and peanuts and onions in a bowl. For being a foreigner Ashima is beginning to realize, is a sort of lifelong pregnancy -- a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts. It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been an ordinary life, only to discover that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding. Like pregnancy, being a foreigner, Ashima believes, is something that elicits the same curiosity of from strangers, the same combination of pity and respect.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”
― The Namesake
― The Namesake
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