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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Identity, according to Cavarero, is not something that we innately possess and reveal, but something we understand through narratives provided to us by others.”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Something had happened, and she wanted to tell other people, so that they would know what happened and how she felt. But when she tried to tell it—maybe to somebody else, maybe to herself—the story had no power. It didn’t sound, in the telling, anything like what it felt like in the living. It sounded ordinary, mundane, eminently forgettable, like a million things that had happened to a million other women—but that wasn’t what it felt like to her.”
― Trick Mirror
― Trick Mirror
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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