“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
“A question is a trap and an answer is your foot in it.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you
control it.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
control it.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“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
Literary Fiction by People of Color
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