In the Country of Men

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

Nationalism is as thin as a thread, perhaps that's why many feel it must be anxiously guarded

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..

In the end all that remains are numbers, the measurement of distances, the quantity of things.

Perhaps the world is fair and balanced after all; no one gains and no one loses or no one gains and everyone loses equally.

How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.

A corrupt mind turns everything to its advantage.

We are...two open pages of the same book

It's one thing not to fear death, another to sing under its sword.

Naoma, and to the rest of the world she was Um

I didn't know you were going to be so beautiful, fill my heart..

One's nature is like a mountain

Baba never found out about Mama’s illness; she only fell ill when he was away on business.

last summer before I was sent away. It was 1979,