Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

Decisions. Where, what, why. Can't handle them. So I'm prolonging the indecision with higher education.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

If I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.

No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.