Quote by Mira Jacob

“Nobody likes these things life hands us. But part of becoming a man is understanding how to face them head on instead of running…

— Mira Jacob

“Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and…

— Mira Jacob

“Was it always this way? Did everyone from high school end up looking like weird facsimiles of other people's parents?”

— Mira Jacob

“Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand…

— Mira Jacob

“Cooking was a talent of her mother's that Amina often thought of as an evolutionary way for Kamala to survive herself with friendships intact.…

— Mira Jacob

“Mindy Lujan with her feathered hair, bullying blue-lined eyes, and potty mouth that rivaled Akhil's, managing to use fuck as a verb, an adjective,…

— Mira Jacob

“Why do fathers look ungainly in their daughter's bedrooms? Like mythical beasts wandered in from the forest of another world?”

— Mira Jacob

“Why is it that fathers so often ensure the outcome they are trying to avoid? Is their need to dominate so much stronger than…

— Mira Jacob

“And even if Amina didn't yet know what it was to love like that, to burn until your spine has no choice but to…

— Mira Jacob

“An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court…

— Mira Jacob

“Somehow, all the talk about tenure and anthropology had given her visions of a thick-walled, libraried adobe, the kind of place that was covered…

— Mira Jacob

“Like many people whose lives had formed around a particularly painful incident, she had grown used to providing ellipses around the event of her…

— Mira Jacob