Jhumpa Lahiri calls living in a foreign country “an eternal pregnancy”; an uncomfortable wait for something impossible to define.
G. Willow WilsonCultural habits are by and large irrational, emerge irrationally, and are practiced irrationally. They are independent of the intellect, and trying to fit them into a logical pattern is fruitless; they can be respected or discarded, but not debated…Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.
G. Willow WilsonI was momentarily overwhelmed by the magnitude of the break I had made with my own history. The world was too big, I was too small; I couldn’t contain so many contradictions.
G. Willow WilsonAnything undertaken with honest intentions can be justly defended.
G. Willow WilsonThere are few things more overwhelming than love in hostile territory.
G. Willow WilsonAt some point, the devoted pass from belief into certainty. I did not believe in Islam; I opened my eyes every morning and saw it.
G. Willow WilsonI didn’t believe in spiritual homelands, and found God as readily in a strip mall as in a mosque. My faith did not require beauty or belonging--the deeper I went into my practice, the less it required at all.
G. Willow WilsonOnce you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.
G. Willow WilsonA story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.
G. Willow WilsonIn his mind he made himself get down off the ledge and go outside to help Dina with her bags, then to see if there was anything his mother needed; he spoke to the maid in complete sentences, and remembered to clean the dust from his own shoes when he came back inside. Naked in the dark, with the memory of the Hand's reptilian eyes, he realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.
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