“What if God wants us to be happy? What if there’s nothing else around the bend? What if all our unhappiness is in the past and from here on out we get an uncomplicated life? Some people get that, you know. Why shouldn’t it be us?”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
“we make a new rule of life … always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
― Wonder
― Wonder
“Because a place can do many things against you, and if it’s your home or if it was your home at one time, you still love it. That’s how it works.”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
“Maybe it’s the instinct of every immigrant, born of necessity or of longing: Someplace else will be better than here. And the condition: if only I can get to that place.”
― The Book of Unknown Americans
― The Book of Unknown Americans
“Sometimes one who thinks himself incomplete is merely young. —Italo Calvino”
― A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
― A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade
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