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‘Smoke, the doctor will say, gently leading Bayan through the report. Everyone thinks it does the lungs in, which is true. But it spoils the heart so mercilessly.’

‘We enter the netherworld to earn our living and return to this one to save our children.’

‘Joy is a delicious luxury that we experience most cautiously, for tragedy conceals itself around every corner.’

‘You can love or hate the sea,but it will always be there. Forever. The sea has been the center of her life. It has nurtured her and stolen from her, but it has never left.’

‘Enslavement did not just mean different-colored people buying and selling each other. Your enemy looking like you-recognizing yourself in the enemy- made it so much worse because it mirrored back to you all the darkness you had.’

‘Jujube wondered about the ways in which girls and women performed for men by always knowing what it was men wanted and how it was they wished to be comforted, always engaged in the ongoing calculus of figuring out what sides of themselves they should show to a man and which parts of their grief were too unbearable for him.’

‘All love was someone breaking their soul into smaller pieces and offering the broken pieces of themselves as a puzzle to someone else- help me put myself back together.’

‘Survive until tomorrow.’

‘ “ The distance between death and life is not as great as you imagine.” ‘

‘Once upon a time, a question like that might have flattered her. A long time ago, she had harbored such ambitions. She burned with them. She had pushed Aaron forward and then resented him when he actually succeeded. As a politician’s wife, though, she had had her fill of politics. But then, there was no worse job in politics than politician’s wife.’