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Lakambini A. Sitoy

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[Wikipedia] Lakambini A. Sitoy is a Filipino author, journalist and teacher. Her novel Sweet Haven was published in French translation by Albin Michel as Les filles de Sweethaven in October 2011, in the original English by the New York Review of Books in 2014, and by Anvil Publishing Inc. in 2015. She received

Quotes by Lakambini A. Sitoy

“A mix of shyness and arrogance; he has been rejected before. Somehow that cheapens him, his hesitance makes her strong.”

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“They were playing. The little girl had started it, the two boys quickly catching on. They would grab hold of one of…

Lakambini A. Sitoy

Little girl

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“But I want to paint you. That’s how artists come to possess things beyond their means, can you understand that?”

Lakambini A. Sitoy

Art

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“Everything, she thought, is in suspended animation; if she moved, dislodged one single pebble, the whole world would come rushing down. And…

Lakambini A. Sitoy

Whole world

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“This is my city; I was here, when this was all forest, long before people like you put the pavement down.”

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“No one had asked about his life, the years aboard ship. As a child she had been fascinated by the way he…

Lakambini A. Sitoy

Life

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“Someone else’s laundry is already whipping around in the perennial wind that blows above the city: long white T-shirts dancing in the…

Lakambini A. Sitoy

Long time

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“The tragedy isn’t in the lesson, but in the manner that it’s learned.”

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