Lina

“I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as a loss. Nowhere to call home? No problem, the world is my oyster. Where are you from, they ask. Does it matter, I answer.
But it does. Because how can you truly know yourself, and how can you know other place and people, if you don't even know where you come from?”
― Kapka Kassabova, Street without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves