There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how … - Deborah Smith

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Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos

Deborah Smith

There's no linear narrative - the structure is more like a series of variations on a theme (how identity is shaped by language), with the past constantly bleeding into the present, dreams into reality. And the language, while incredibly lyrical in places, also has this underlying dissonance, the sense of it having itself been translated.

Dream, Having, Identity, Past, Reality, Sense

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There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free to float to the moon and evaporate or sink to the bottom of the deepest ocean. But you’re free to explore. Some people confuse that with drifting, I suppose. I like to think of it as growing.

Defined, Inspirational, Like, Ocean, Sink, Thinking

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

Believe, Wish

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

Getting Older, Look, Looks, People, Young

Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali literature'. But though the (male) establishment used this label of erotica to dismiss her work, the sex scenes have exactly the same transgressive function as her use of chronology and narrative voice.

Males, Scenes, Sex, Voice, Writer

Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Excited, Failed, Fearing, Might, Should, Succeeded