the yak occidental

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years by Shubnum Khan "Beti, when you're away from your family and everything you know for so long, it eats you up. I did not understand this then. I stopped talking so much or going anywhere. I stopped sleeping. I just sat with my books and pretended to read." p.45 "...and she realizes then that a memory can make you whole." p.48 "Sana has seen many shapes that people can take: broken and whole, full and empty, but she has never seen anything quite like this. The woman who seats herself before them seems to have a shattered quality to her, as if she is glass; you look hard enough, and a thousand reflections look back." p. 58 He is a tall man, taller than most, and the first thing that strikes you about him is the ease with which he carries this fact. He does not crumple himself, nor bring attention to it, but holds himself as one who is contented however he may be. p. 90 "I t...