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Su Tugcu

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“How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“The difference between comfort and nurture is this: if you have a plant that is sick because you keep it in a dark closet, and you say soothing words to it, that is comfort.If you take out of the closet and put in the sun, give it something to drink, and then talk to it, that is nurture”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

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“She was after all the kind of woman who would make a man easily uproot his life, the kind who, because she did not expect or ask for certainty, made a certain kind of sureness become possible.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of how much better than wherever you had come from America was.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

tags: america, criticism, immigrants

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“You know America has a way of turning everything into an illness that needs medicine.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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