White Teeth by Zadie Smith

[drune]

"And then you being to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging seems like some long, dirty lie... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter?"
As Samad described this dystopic with a look of horror, Irie was ashamed to find that the land of accidents sounded like paradise to her. Sounded like freedom.

- White Teeth by Zadie Smith