{"quotes":[{"text":"It's easier to surrender to confinement.","author":"Jhumpa Lahiri","tags":["confinement","immigrant-experience","surrender"],"id":8263,"author_id":"Jhumpa+Lahiri"},{"text":"As many Chinas as there were, there were that many Charleses as well. Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would have been to him from the inside and the place it must be to him from the outside.","author":"Jade Chang","tags":["home","identity","immigrant-experience","immigration"],"id":25008,"author_id":"Jade+Chang"},{"text":"That could also be because at one point during the film, our hands found each other. And when I felt Michael's middle finger caress the inside of my palm, it sent a tickle up my spine, and the fingers of my right hand were soon exploring his left hand, and we each took turns tracing the contours of the other's hands.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["coming-of-age","immigrant-experience","middle-east","new-adult-contemporary-romance","political-fiction","political-romance","syrian-civil-war","the-syrian-virgin","zack-love"],"id":62475,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"Asif Ali maneuvers the gleaming Mercedes down the labyrinthine lanes of Old Kolkata with consummate skill, but his passengers do not notice how smoothly he avoids potholes, cows and beggars, how skilfully he sails through aging yellow lights to get the Bose family to their destination on time. This disappoints Asif only a little. In his six years of chauffeuring the rich and callous, he has realized that, to them, servants are invisible.","author":"Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni","tags":["drama","family-relationships","immigrant-experience","india","literary-fiction","suspense","usa"],"id":67794,"author_id":"Chitra+Banerjee+Divakaruni"},{"text":"That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.","author":"NoViolet Bulawayo","tags":["american-culture","immigrant-experience","smile"],"id":82848,"author_id":"NoViolet+Bulawayo"},{"text":"Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to meet him. This, she thought. This is it. But it was only part of the truth. She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more.","author":"Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni","tags":["book-club-fiction","divakaruni","immigrant-experience","india","indian-american","indian-fiction","mothers-and-daughters","novel"],"id":120146,"author_id":"Chitra+Banerjee+Divakaruni"},{"text":"It's bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and - next thing you know - it seems as if there's some intense connection with the person - or at least you feel that closeness and hope it's mutual.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["anissa","college-romance","coming-of-age","crush","immigrant-experience","michael","middle-east","new-adult-contemporary-romance","new-york","political-romance","syrian-civil-war","the-syrian-virgin","zack-love"],"id":125661,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are 'evolving' past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.","author":"Colin Quinn","tags":["america","american-culture","americans","changing-times","communication","cultural-differences","differences","ethnicity","honesty","immigrant-experience","immigrants","immigration","language","melting-pot","new-york-city","new-yorkers","race","showing-emotion","showing-the-world-who-you-are","united-states"],"id":136611,"author_id":"Colin+Quinn"},{"text":"Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me).","author":"Zack Love","tags":["anissa","college-romance","coming-of-age","crush","immigrant-experience","michael","middle-east","new-adult-contemporary-romance","new-york","political-romance","syrian-civil-war","the-syrian-virgin","zack-love"],"id":150494,"author_id":"Zack+Love"},{"text":"Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["freedom","freedom-of-thought","hispanic","identity","immigrant-experience","latino-americans","latinos","race","race-in-america"],"id":162168,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}