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"Preparation for the Next Life" Quotes
In "Preparation for the Next Life," Atticus Lish explores the gritty, passionate love story between a traumatized Iraq War veteran and an undocumented Chinese Muslim immigrant in the underbelly of New York City.
Quotes
She would watch the sun set and the sky turn a deep blue and the first stars come out, and she would think how beautiful it was and how strange that she could feel so alone in a world so beautiful.
Love is not enough. It never is.
She had lived long enough that she had learned not to cry, but she had not learned to keep the tears from her eyes.
He would sit and watch her and think that she was a miracle, a living miracle.
The city was a place where you could be anonymous, where you could disappear if you wanted to.
He knew that there was no such thing as safety, only the illusion of it.
She had always been a fighter, but she was tired of fighting.
There was a kind of freedom in being completely lost.
Sometimes you just had to go through the darkness to get to the light.
The world was full of people who had been broken, and she was just one of them.
