That was our first home. Before I felt like an island in an ocean, before Calcutta, before everything that followed. You know it wasn’t a home at first but just a shell. Nothing ostentatious but just a rented two-room affair, an unneeded corridor that ran alongside them, second hand cane furniture, cheap crockery, two leaking faucets, a dysfunctional doorbell, and a flight of stairs that led to, but ended just before the roof (one of the many idiosyncrasies of the house), secured by a sixteen garrison lock, and a balcony into which a mango tree’s branch had strayed. The house was in a building at least a hundred years old and looked out on a street and a tenement block across it. The colony, if you were to call it a colony, had no name. The house itself was seedy, decrepit, as though a safe-keeper of secrets and scandals. It had many entries and exits and it was possible to get lost in it. And in a particularly inspired stroke of whimsy architectural genius, it was almost invisible from the main road like H.G. Wells’ ‘Magic Shop’. As a result, we had great difficulty when we had to explain our address to people back home. It went somewhat like this, ‘... take the second one from the main road….and then right after turning left from Dhakeshwari, you will see a bird shop (unspecific like that, for it had no name either)… walk straight in and take the stairs at the end to go to the first floor, that’s where we dwell… but don’t press the bell, knock… and don't walk too close to the cages unless you want bird-hickeys…’’
('Left from Dhakeshwari')
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But we can't impose our own goals, wishes, or help on anyone. We can only teach, support, and love. We give them more opportunities, more choices. Then we love them regardless of the choices they make, hoping that they will learn to make better ones in the future.
Stacey BessMots clés love education homelessness
We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.
Harold Edmund StearnsMots clés home travel homelessness homeless lost-generation abroad
Nothing is ‘wrong’ with me, Dan. What’s wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.
Martin HopkinsMots clés wealth society romance prostitution sex addiction violence action poverty homelessness crime suspense thriller pornography erotica edinburgh literary-fiction jekyll-hyde
The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,
but more importantly, trodden upon.
Mots clés wealth society romance prostitution sex addiction violence action poverty homelessness crime suspense thriller pornography erotica edinburgh literary-fiction jekyll-hyde
Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours...
Martin HopkinsMots clés wealth society romance prostitution sex addiction violence action poverty homelessness crime suspense thriller pornography erotica edinburgh literary-fiction jekyll-hyde
I don't know what's worse by number in America, the vacant houses standing, or the homeless people falling into them.
Anthony LiccioneMots clés america homelessness economy shelter starvation coldness abandoned struggles vacant-houses
This unhoused, exiled Satan was perhaps the heavenly patron of all exiles, all unhoused people, all those who were torn from their place and left floating, half-this, half-that, denied the rooted person's comforting, defining sense of having solid ground beneath their feet.
Salman RushdieMots clés satan homelessness exile immigrants rootedness
TRACY MARANDER: [Kurt Cobain] was a really good artist. He would draw cartoons with funny sayings. I have this huge picture of this homeless guy, and it’s a satirical thing on how homeless people are mentally ill, they’re alcoholics, they had messed up childhoods — but they’re expected to fend for themselves in a box in the snow.
Greg PratoMots clés homelessness
Most families are destroyed from the inside, because they allow themselves to be conquered by others from the outside.
Carlton YoungMots clés homelessness homeless-in-america
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