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“Maybe you don't ever shake off the mangling of your name, or the dumb jokes about camels, but at least you go to the library and you read whatever you choose. You go to the movies, and Titanic isn't ninety minutes long and seemingly edited by a prudish maniac. I knew none of this was for my benefit, but I could make a home within it.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“Eyelashes; get one stuck in the white of your eye and you'll feel the phantom of it long after its gone. Hope is like that too, I think.”
― Leila Mottley

“Instead, something else changes most radically in the psychology of someone who leaves home. A relative distance between the person one is and the person they must become.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“This makes him feel all the more different. He has roots in no town. He has no family or children. He does not have a house that you could really call "home." Yet another difference. But what he lacks most of all is a companion.”
― Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Separate Rooms