Gary Shteyngart Quotes

Milan is my second skin.

Milan is my home, where I chose to go and where my heart really is.

Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.

I love Star City - it is my home.

You've got to love what's yours.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

You need to feel loved, and that is what I feel at City.

Mumbai is where my heart is. This is home.

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.

There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love.

What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

I can never turn my back on a city that made me.

Tomorrow you will belong to someone else," Finn said. "But tonight, you're with me

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.

Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by, weary and surly, carrying a heavy load, limping along and looking down at his feet, only at his feet to avoid falling down; he is in his town, like a leaf in greenery, like a tree in a forest, argos surrounds him, heavy and warm, full of herself; I want to be that slave, Electra, I want to pull the city around me and to roll myself up in it like a blanket. I will not leave.

I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

Sometimes I think of Paris not as a city but as a home.

I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.

I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

Oh Jesus God we did belong to each other. He was mine.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.