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Meaning
The quote suggests that people often need something beyond their current limits to confront, and that pain can act like a boundary or challenge. It portrays her as refusing to stay inside that pain and instead trying to force it away.
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Source
Midnight's Children: The iconic Booker-prize winning novel (2010)
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Originally said in English.
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The phrase appears in the book "Midnight's Children: The iconic Booker-prize winning novel (2010)" by Salman Rushdie (Google Books snippet); no earlier source was checked.
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About Salman Rushdie
Indian-born British and American novelist
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British and American novelist. He is known for fiction that blends magical realism with historical elements, and for writing about movement, rupture, and exchange between Eastern and Western worlds. His novels are often set on the Indian subcontinent and frequently center Indian characters or family life. Midnight's Children, his second novel, won the Booker Prize in 1981, and later it was selected twice as the best of all Booker winners, for the prize's 25th and 40th anniversaries.
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Books by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
1995
The Satanic Verses
1989
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
1991
The Moor's Last Sigh
1996
Fury
2002