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

For a second I was almost jealous of the clouds. Why was he looking to them for an escape when I was right here beside him?

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

So many things you promise yourself you won't get used to, and then you do.

You have this ability to find beauty in weird places.

This world is out of date

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.