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41 " But I have never been sure that we are all talking about the same thing when we talk about love. Perhaps real love is too boring to talk about. Heartbreak is so much easier to understand that I think we might sometimes employ it as an understudy, a stand-in for the real thing. "
― Nell Freudenberger , The Dissident
42 " She wasn’t any more familiar with boutique shopping in Bombay or the challenges of dating someone in the movie industry, but she knew what it was to feel that you would never become fully adult in the country where you lived, would never understand the jokes or master the graces that came so naturally to everyone around you. "
― Nell Freudenberger , The Newlyweds
43 " Phil doesn't say yes, but he doesn't really say no. He's willing to ruin a person's life in order to keep her from being angry at him. "
44 " Around the women who frequented the yoga studio she felt perpetually diminutive, and that physical feeling augmented the psychological sense of her own childishness that she felt in America. "
45 " It wasn't the degree that counted but what you did with it; he believed that too many Americans wasted time and money on college simply for the sake of a fancy piece of paper. "
46 " It was possible to be struck dumb by all sorts of emotions, not only surprise, and as they drove back toward Pittsford, Amina thought that there ought to be a whole set of words to encompass all those different varieties of silence. "
47 " What a strange thing, she thought, to find out one day that you had built your whole life on a mistake, and the next to discover that this fact would allow you to have your dearest wish. "
48 " If her father was Thunder, then George was Smoke - and how could you argue with someone who began to disappear as soon as you opened your mouth? "
49 " There were a lot of other things about village life she thought might surprise her new friend, but she didn’t want to undermine Kim’s admiration for her culture, which she thought was genuine if not especially well informed. "
50 " Now here was an American tragedy, and as sorry as she felt for Kim, who had lost both a husband and a child, there was a part of her that was secretly thrilled. Of all the people Kim might have told, she had chosen Amina. "
51 " We complain and complain in the villages, and then take us out and it's all we can talk about.""Aren't people that way everywhere:" Amina said. "I mean, when they lose something? "