When the foreigners left, it all went to shit. When it all went to shit, the foreigners left. The sequence hardly matters, the result was the same. They took their work and their money and their drugs with them when they left.
Sayfa 19
Compared to New York, this is a real place where real things happen. Not microaggressions that are tweeted about, not theory; these are real adult aggressions, bodily, bloodying.
Sayfa 18
Im caught between my desire to understand and my desire to appear as though I already understand.
Sayfa 17
Okur Takip Önerileri
How many questions you can ask before you expose who you are?
Sayfa 17
We believed, we really believed that the revolution would succeed on the strength of our brotherhood, and the nobility of our case.
Sayfa 16
If everyone you knew jumped off a bridge, wouldn't you believe you could fly?
It was not political coming-of-age, or even an ideological one. We didn't take to the streets out of anger, but out of pride.
Sayfa 14
…living together could people get to know each other properly. “If you know someone that well, you are bound to be disappointed.”
Sayfa 42
It isn’t like India, in India the older you are the closer you are to the center of attention. Here you have to keep going.
Sayfa 32
Everybody was like us, so I never thought of myself as poor.
Sayfa 24
He wondered if he was sadder than he knew.
Sayfa 20
(…) as if his wife’s departure revealed his inability to love her.
Sayfa 10
İnsanlar mutlu, dürüst, açık olmak için yaratılmışlardı.
Sayfa 466
explorers -those imperialists-
Sayfa 27
The people who can afford to buy books and magazines and go to the movies don't like to hear about people who are poor or sick.
Sayfa 25
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
Sayfa 24