“When you’re a child, you think your family works in a straight line. Then you get older and find out where the curves are.”
― Take This Man. A Memoir
― Take This Man. A Memoir
“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
“Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. —Italo Calvino”
― A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
― A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
“Is this what school was like in the United States? It was like theater.”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
“What if God wants us to be happy? What if there’s nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn’t it be us?”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
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