Esha

“I used to tell him, 'Your head is in the clouds'; and he would say, 'And you, Esther, your feet are underground.' Look who's underground now.”
― André Aciman, Out of Egypt: A Memoir

“Meat didn’t get a say on whose hook it hung from.”
― Stuart Turton, The Devil and the Dark Water

“Revenge always come too late, he thought, and only after time, indifference, or forgiveness has evened the score.”
― André Aciman, Out of Egypt: A Memoir

“Even today, I continue to live my life that way. I cross the street on the slant, I always sit in the side rows at concert halls, I am a citizen of two countries but I live in neither, and I never look people in the eye,' she said, as I, conscious of her effort to do so now, averted my own, 'I'm honest with no one, though I've never lied. I've given far less than I've taken, though I'm always left with nothing. I don't even think I know who I am, I know myself the way I might know my neighbour: from across the street. When I'm here, I long to be there; when I was there I longed to be here,' she said, referring to her years in Alexandria.”
― André Aciman, Out of Egypt: A Memoir