quotes TRF Flashcards
Erica
“A naturalist would likely have compared her to a lioness; strong, sleek, and invariably surrounded by her pride” Chapter 2 & “I met her eyes and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crack in a diamond” Chapter 4 & ““Then pretend,” I said, “pretend I am him”” Chapter 7
Home
“Like Manhattan? Yes, precisely! And that was one of the reasons why for me moving to New York felt-so unexpectedly-like coming home.” Chapter 3 & “I felt a peculiar feeling; I felt at home.” Chapter 4
Personal and Political
“I stared as one- then the other- of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center collapsed. And then I smiled.” Chapter 5 & “I had always resented the manner in which America conducted itself in the world; your country’s constant interference in the affairs of others was insufferable.” Chapter 11
Stereotypes
“Perhaps you have drawn certain conclusions from my appearance, my lustrous beard” Chapter 5 &”Fucking Arab” Chapter 8
Nostalgia
"”So I kind of miss home, too,” she said. “ Except my home was a guy with long skinny fingers.”” Chapter 2 & “It seemed to me that America, too, was increasingly giving itself over to a dangerous nostalgia at that time.” Chapter 8
Loyalty
“Afghanistan was Pakistan’s neighbour, our friend, and a fellow Muslim nation” Chapter 7 & “ I was a modern-day janissary, a servant of the American empire” Chapter 10
Conflicted identity
“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin” Chapter 3 & “On that day, I did not think of myself as a Pakistani, but as an Underwood Samson trainee” Chapter 3
