Tcks Quotes

“The trouble was, Elizabeth thought, they did not tell the children of colonial families not to love these foreign lands, not to fall in love with their birthplaces. While parents dreamt of retiring in peace to another place called ‘home’, their children soaked up knowledge of the only world they knew: its different peoples, its spicy food, its birdsong, the way warm rain fell like a curtain through the palm trees. Their souls would be forever torn.”
― Anne M Chappel, Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival

“Now I have been a resident of a small English city for four years and here even the strangers are familiar. I am settled and it is unsettling.”
― Aditi Babel, Unsettled

“I don't know where 'home' is. I don't know which place I liked best. People ask me if I felt sad to leave those schools behind: those people behind.

I have never known anything else.”
― Aditi Babel, Unsettled