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1 " She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. " Let me become a cat or dog, but not a woman," was her constant murmur as she shuffled around the house, oozing apology with every step. "
2 " It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or Anatole, with a sense that her feelings for them were as nothing compared with her feel of worship and awe of God. "
― Leo Tolstoy , War and Peace
3 " All the while, when Nazneen turned to her prayers and tried to empty her mind and accept each new thing with grace or indifference, Chanu worked his own method. He was looking for the same essential thing. But he thought he could grab it from the outside and hold it against his chest like a shield...Where Nazneen turned in, he turned out; where she strove to accept, he was determined to struggle; where she attempted to dull her mind and numb her thoughts, he argued loud; while she wanted to look neither to the past nor to the future, he lived exclusively in both. They took different paths but they had journeyed, so she realized, together. "
― Monica Ali , Brick Lane
