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“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
“I wear my Indian-ness like a mask, or like an object I can use to explain myself, but I never feel it. I am American. I am Indian. But I don’t belong to either world.”
“I think that one of the most fascinating aspects of being an immigrant is the realization that a place can never really be home, that the sense of home is a fleeting and always elusive thing.”
"To be a writer, you have to be an observer. You have to be a listener, you have to pay attention. It’s an unnatural act, but it’s the only way to get things right.”
“We are all the sum of our experiences.”
“I don’t think that anyone is really free, but we all have the ability to break free of the limitations placed on us.”
“The past, with its unhealed wounds, is always there, for better or for worse, in the way we love.”