Aswathy

“What is a home if not the first place you learn to run from?”
― Clementine von Radics

“Gretel dreamed quite a Druhástranian dream. I mean, the absence of inclination to pass commentary, a reluctance to subscribe to any ideology in case the compromise proves catastrophic; those aren’t the only clues as to the Druhástranian nature of this dream. What about the fear that not having a point of view is in some way a crime? If this dream had been dreamed by a non-Druhástranian perhaps it would have had moral or spiritual overtones, or nationalist ones, or Gretel would have dreamed we were in a psychiatric hospital being treated for this chronic lack of a point of view.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread

“I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.
I plan to give this book to you and know you'll read it,
so our minds may meet across these pages,
in the colorful country of another writer's language,
where we can flourish in the knowledge that we are learning how to speak to one another;
and so our mouths will know what to do when they finally come together.”
― Sylvia Brownrigg, Pages for You

“But listen, listen . . . a mind-set that’s caught up in, even imprisoned by legality and correctness of form . . . what is that way of thinking if not Druhástranian? To be Druhástranian is to be dissatisfied with one’s condition until one can find some official personage to sign off on it.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Gingerbread