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America for Beginners QUOTES

America for Beginners QUOTES

1 " My mother is the reason that I love you,' Bhim said simply. 'She is the reason I know what love is. "

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2 " He knew what it was to wish you were something different even when it was the thing that made you yourself. "

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3 " Rebecca decided to call her mother, who she knew might give her good advice by virtue of recommending the thing Rebecca least wanted to do. Arguments with her mother solidified Rebecca’s resolve on a number of issues and she looked forward to them as a kind of reinforcement against her own fears. "

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4 " In the months after her death he had heard her every day, yelling at him for not brushing his teeth for long enough or wearing a dirty shirt or not offering to help an older woman if he saw one, not that she would have ever accepted help herself. But with time her voice had grown softer and less precise, and he hated it. It was like losing her all over again. No one cared about him enough to yell at him now. No one existed who would bother. "

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5 " We do not know how to treat our own history. And then we become angry when others take it away from us. Sometimes I wonder if we deserve anything at all. "

― , America for Beginners