"My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next."

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Source : Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.16, Penguin

Dinaw Mengestu

#Summer Quotes #Mother Quotes #Husband Quotes

“What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that there has to be some balance of energy, or, failing a balance, a focused intensity of ALL energy. I've experienced both, I suppose.”

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“If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.”
“Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.”
“When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: 'Did I win this medal?'”
“I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.”

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“A scary but yet beautiful smile”
“Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful.”
“The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.”

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