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“You’re on a date here?” she asked, trying to break the awkward silence. “One that’s going horribly,” Jasper said. “This guy is so pretentious I want to gag, and not in the good way.”

Book:Strength Check

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“I want you to be very successful. Remember, people like us cannot afford to fail "People like us"… immigrants, exiles, refugees, newcomers, outsiders… Too many words for a shared, recognizable sentiment that, no matter how often described, remains largely undefined. Children of uprooted parents are born into the memory tribe. Both their present and their future are forever shaped by their ancestral past, regardless of whether they have any knowledge of it. If they flourish and prosper, their achievements will be attributed to a whole community; and, in the same way, their failures will be charged up to something bigger and older than themselves, be it family, religion, or ethnicity. While the journey of life may be full of reversals of fortune, children from displaced families can never allow themselves to fall below the level at which their parents started it out.”

Immigrant Experience Refugee Experience

Book:There Are Rivers in the Sky

Source: There Are Rivers in the Sky

“I didn’t say anything to my dad. It’s not like he could do anything but talk on the phone anyway. We don’t live in the heroic age. Our separation isn’t any great poetic struggle. It’s just pain. It’s just ripping bodies apart.”

Immigration Experience Refugee Experience

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“That’s what forgetting your grandpa’s face feels like. There’s no good in it. Nothing to gain but nothing. A piece of your heart makes a sound like a groan and disappears. Then you poke at it sometimes, trying to remember what was there by the shape of the hole. That’s it. You are less.”

Memories Grandfather Refugee Experience

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

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“Topoanalysis, then, would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives. In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, th stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles. At times we think we know ourselves in time, when all we know is a sequence of fixations in the spaces of the being's stability - a being who does not want to melt away, and who, even in the past, when he sets out in search of things past, wants time to "suspend" its flight. In its countless alveoli space contains compressed time. That is what space is for.”

Time Space Topoanalysis

Author:Gaston Bachelard The Poetics of Space

“In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make.”

Cities Destruction Trees Solace Rubble Picturesque Prague

Book:All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

Source: All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

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