Shailja Agarwal

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Paradise

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

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The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.

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The Septembers of Shiraz

by Dalia Sofer

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Shailja’s Quotes

“my life is not guided by reason; it is ruled, rather, by the inertia of habitual motion.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

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“at exactly the time when it has become clear that global warming is in every sense a collective predicament, humanity finds itself in the thrall of a dominant culture in which the idea of the collective has been exiled from politics, economics and literature alike.”
― Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

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“I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

tags: self-awareness, self-discovery

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“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

tags: relationships

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“I have found that four givens are particularly relevant to psychotherapy: the inevitability of death for each of us and for those we love; the freedom to make our lives as we will; our ultimate aloneness; and, finally, the absence of any obvious meaning or sense to life.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner

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