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21 " Then there rose up before her a vision of a parish saved, a village reformed, a county reorganised, and a triumphant election at the end, the recompense and crown of all, which should put the government of the country itself, to a certain extent, into competent hands. "
― Mrs. Oliphant , Miss Marjoribanks (Chronicles of Carlingford, #5)
22 " When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, " You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models. "
23 " You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head. "
24 " If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city. "
25 " In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in my head and I live in that village, and it's true. When I start writing a book, characters from previous books reappear. All my emotions, my mind, my heart, my dreams, everything becomes connected with a new book, and nothing else really matters. "
26 " I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English. "
