At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can .. . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.
Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.
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Priya Ardis
When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.
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Alice Hoffman
...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102.
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Alice Hoffman
Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.
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Priya Ardis
So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.
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Margaret George
More Quotes By Ha Jin
I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.
Once you've done it with him, he won't abandon you. If he really loves you, if he's a man with a heart, he'll follow you wherever you go. If he doesn't, he isn't the man you want, is he?
At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can .. . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need.
But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
I would even argue that, for many displaced people, nostalgia is also blended with fear - the fear of uncertainty and of facing the challenges posed by the larger world and the fear of the absence of the clarity and confidence provided by the past....
