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“Spreading rumours is our national past time”
“If you think you are powerless, then you are”
“They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug”
“The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful”
“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
“He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.”
“while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.”
“All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essentia...”
