"The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain."
"You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down."
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Source: Monica Ali (2008). “Brick Lane: A Novel”, p.382, Simon and Schuster
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