Charlotte Harrell

“I have never been Claire. I have never been inviolable. Often, still, my own life story feels fragmented, like beads unstrung. Each time I scoop up my memories, the assortment is slightly different. I worry, at times, that I’ll always be lost inside. I worry that I’ll be forever confused.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“Nobody is who you think they are at first glance. We need to see beyond the projections we cast onto each other. Each of us is so much grander, more nuanced, and more extraordinary than anybody thinks, including ourselves.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“When you don't belong to a country, the world decides that you don't deserve a thing.”
― Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka