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Elif Batuman Quote: “When the time came to sell cookies, my mother, to whom few things could have been more shameful than the idea of my going door-to-door trying to sell anything, sold all the cookies herself, to her own mother. Ten years later, when I was visiting my grandmother in Ankara, I found them in the pantry: thirty unopened boxes of Girl Scout cookies. “Why didn’t you eat your cookies?” I asked. “Oh, they’re cookies? I thought they were candles,” said my grandmother.”

101. “When the time came to sell cookies, my mother, to whom few things could have been more shameful than the idea of my going door-to-door trying to sell anything, sold all the cookies herself, to her own mother. Ten years later, when I was visiting my grandmother in Ankara, I found them in the pantry: thirty unopened boxes of Girl Scout cookies. “Why didn’t you eat your cookies?” I asked. “Oh, they’re cookies? I thought they were candles,” said my grandmother.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Quality of life”: as if we knew it, and could measure it. I wanted to know what it was: the quality of life.”

102. “Quality of life”: as if we knew it, and could measure it. I wanted to know what it was: the quality of life.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Now we already lived in different buildings, and soon we would live even farther away from each other, and she would be married, and I would never wait for her in her bedroom again. How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other’s rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries.”

103. “Now we already lived in different buildings, and soon we would live even farther away from each other, and she would be married, and I would never wait for her in her bedroom again. How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other’s rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I learned a lot from that, like how much it hurt to see how other people described you, and how things that you said about another person, especially your parents, seemed neutral when addressed to a third party, but lethal when you thought about your parents reading it.”

104. “I learned a lot from that, like how much it hurt to see how other people described you, and how things that you said about another person, especially your parents, seemed neutral when addressed to a third party, but lethal when you thought about your parents reading it.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “For some reason, the image that came to my mind was of Peter explaining to someone in a quiet, serious voice that Selin’s problems had been more serious than anyone had realized. No way, I thought. I was going to stick around and bury those people.”

105. “For some reason, the image that came to my mind was of Peter explaining to someone in a quiet, serious voice that Selin’s problems had been more serious than anyone had realized. No way, I thought. I was going to stick around and bury those people.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I felt dissatisfied, as if I was failing to capitalize on some advantage I had from “being” Turkish – one that would compensate for the hassle of having a name and appearance that had always required explanation. It had, I realized, been a real disappointment to get to Turkey and to discover that my name and appearance still required constant explanation.”

106. “I felt dissatisfied, as if I was failing to capitalize on some advantage I had from “being” Turkish – one that would compensate for the hassle of having a name and appearance that had always required explanation. It had, I realized, been a real disappointment to get to Turkey and to discover that my name and appearance still required constant explanation.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I thought we should be rewriting the categories and trying to think of a better organization than whichever one we happened to have inherited.”

107. “I thought we should be rewriting the categories and trying to think of a better organization than whichever one we happened to have inherited.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.”

108. “Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “All I was ever trying to do when I wrote, I realized, was to show how much I saw and understood.”

109. “All I was ever trying to do when I wrote, I realized, was to show how much I saw and understood.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “There are certain books that one remembers together with the material circumstances of reading: how long it took, the time of year, the color of the cover.”

110. “There are certain books that one remembers together with the material circumstances of reading: how long it took, the time of year, the color of the cover.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “In the past, my goal in conversation had been to accurately represent the things that I thought, and to deploy these thoughts in relation to the things that other people said, while exercising caution to not betray ignorant or antisocial ideas, and the whole thing had been so much to think about that in the end I usually hadn’t said anything at all.”

111. “In the past, my goal in conversation had been to accurately represent the things that I thought, and to deploy these thoughts in relation to the things that other people said, while exercising caution to not betray ignorant or antisocial ideas, and the whole thing had been so much to think about that in the end I usually hadn’t said anything at all.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.”

112. “I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “I would never write about that. It was enough I had wasted the time once. I would never waste more time by writing about it.”

113. “I would never write about that. It was enough I had wasted the time once. I would never waste more time by writing about it.”

— Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman Quote: “Anyway, I didn’t want to be “nurtured” in an “environment” that was set up for me to “excel.” I wanted to do whatever was the most real and rigorous.”

114. “Anyway, I didn’t want to be “nurtured” in an “environment” that was set up for me to “excel.” I wanted to do whatever was the most real and rigorous.”

— Elif Batuman

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