“… They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”

—  Zadie Smith, book White Teeth

Variant: Because this is the other thing about immigrants: they cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
Source: White Teeth (2000)

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