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the aroma of poverty mixed with the smell of progress.
The cleansing scents of citrus fruits, jasmine, and sandalwood coexisted with the stench of garbage, body odor, and pollution. A smell many people might find offensive but for me was oddly comforting.
“When faced with tragedy, we must celebrate the good.”
“Everyone is worth fighting for . . . until they aren’t.
the hole in a person’s heart when someone leaves is hard to fill. It doesn’t go away.
“It is better to fail at the right thing than to succeed at the wrong one.”
who lived in a place where he truly felt he belonged, there was no need to explore the rest of the world. Maybe the rest of us were so restless because we were searching for that feeling of belonging
Countries are like people—you have to accept all sides of them. The good comes with the bad.
Being adrift was the plight of any immigrant, and it was foolish to think that I could somehow circumvent that.
