Aftertime Book Quotes & Sayings

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Fiona had never learned her mother's language and she had never shown much respect for the stories that it preserved-the stories that Grant had taught and written about, and still did write about, in his working life. She referred to their heroes as "old Njal" or "old Snorri." But in the last few years she had developed an interest in the country itself and looked at travel guides. She read about William Morris's trip, and Auden's. She didn't really plan to travel there. She said the weather was too dreadful. Also-she said-there ought to be one place you thought about and knew about and maybe longed for-but never did get to see. — Alice Munro

He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone. — Toni Morrison

Pain and fear are inextricable- but pain has multiple forms. — V.E Schwab

A horse can have a job and not be a slave. He can look forward to it and enjoy it. That's the same for me. — Buck Brannaman

I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't. — Vivien Leigh

It is not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it is not the Christian in the world but the world in the Christian that constitutes the danger. Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it. ~J. Wilbur Chapman — J. Wilbur Chapman

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon. — Greg Giraldo

The cow's point of view deserves more literary attention. — Mason Cooley

Unfortunatelymost westerners form their opinions of Africa based on the reporting and news in their own countries — Louise Mushikiwabo

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants. — Patrick Stump

When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel. — Taylor Jenkins Reid