The Submission
Amy Waldman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.”
“There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.”
“Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up.”
“Sorrow can be a bully.”
“The real act of will was not in the creating of a garden but in the sustaining, the continuous stand against wildness.”
“Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.”
“Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.”
“In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.”
“She knew well the history of which they spoke because her father had been a part of it. When the military overseers of Pakistan had refused to allow the winning party in Bangladesh—then East Pakistan—to form a government, her father had put down his textbooks, left the university, and joined the fight. Hundreds of thousands, millions of deaths later, Bangladesh had its independence. His stories had made a deep impact on on Asma as a child. She had resolved to be as brave, only to learn that as a woman she wasn't expected to be.”
“Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.”
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Book Keywords:
therapy, bangladesh, grief, redemption, love, family, healing, peace, self-confident, patriotism, women, civil-rights
