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Lisa Sim
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“Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“There is something incredibly relaxing about Africa to me. Americans are always moving, always going somewhere, even if they have nothing important to do when they get there. In Africa, you’re generally home with your family, telling stories, making fun of one another, laughing.”
― How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
― How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
“I'm too young to not set my life on fire, I'm too old to not spend my time with somebody I really admire.”
― I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator
― I Always Think It's Forever: A Love Story Set in Paris as Told by an Unreliable but Earnest Narrator

“Where is it written that lives should have a meaning?”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child

“I have been gone for some time now. It's hard to see my family only once or twice a year. I thought it would get easier as time passed, but it feels like as I get older, it makes me more sad. Sometimes I wake up in my apartment and really remember that most of my friends and family are more than six thousand miles away from me and I get a pang of loneliness.”
― Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults
― Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

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