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41 " Amina has boundless empathy for everyone but her husband, it seems. How is it that disappointment arrives as soon as what you have desired for so long steps over the threshold? It’s like finding the end of your wedding train dragging behind in the mud. "
― Camilla Gibb , Sweetness in the Belly
42 " Ethiopians as a whole did not leave their country. A few students had made their way west to pursue further education, which they planned to put to use back in their own country, but there was no emigration, there was no such thing as a diaspora; the words for these things would not even come into existence until sometime later in history. "
43 " They need to believe in something closer than God, because God often feels too distant.” He was right: the saints offer us a ladder to reach Him more easily. “And they bring people together,” I contributed. He nodded. “They do. Or at least belief in them does.” “One and the same,” I said, sounding much more certain than I felt. "
44 " Why didn’t they go back to India?” “Oh, you know how it is. Once you are outside a place you can never go back. Not really. "