Monica Ali, Brick Lane Quotes

The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.

If you think you are powerless, then you are

The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

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.

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.

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