The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
Mira Jacob
Top 10 Best Quotes
“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to try to wind itself around an empty shirt, she understood for sure that the people who said it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all were a bunch of dicks.”
“Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?”
“There are small blessings, tiny ones that come unbidden and make the hard day one sigh lighter.”
“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead of running all the time. It's time you learned how to do that.”
“Weddings are about fantasies—you understand? Your job is to photograph the fantasy, not the reality. Never the reality. If I ever see another picture like that, you’re fired.”
“The commodification of beauty is an economic trap designed to enslave the modern woman.”
“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her brother's death to keep conversations comfortable. At some point the subconscious logic of this had spread to the rest of her life so that she rarely talked about things she had been deeply affected by. It wasn't hard to do.”
“What are you girls, if not my very own heart growing up once and for all?”
“Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think?”
“Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and taste on you, to imagine the weight of their hips pinning yours so precisely that you crane up to meet your own invisible desire”
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Book Keywords:
grief, immigrants, loss-of-love, professors, college, pain, sadness, life, father-daughter-relationships, indians, united-states
