Kami

“My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.”
― Pierre Berton

“Puebla shopkeepers complained that the country was fighting an invasion of counterfeits from China—a Chinese imitation of a Chinese-made Mexican imitation of a Chinese original.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1493: How Europe's Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth

“He had given me something priceless: namely, his confidence. I am grateful I was forced to make my own way. His disappearance did put me in need and make my future uncertain, but it turns out need and uncertainty can be excellent teachers.”
― Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

“To be a man is to be part of this chain of gratitude and remembering, of blame and forgetting, of surrender and rebellion, until a son’s gaze is made so wounded and keen that, on looking back, he sees nothing but shadows. With every passing day the father journeys further into his night, deeper into the fog, leaving behind remnants of himself and the monumental yet obvious fact, at once frustrating and merciful—for how else is the son to continue living if he must not also forget—that no matter how hard we try we can never entirely know our fathers.”
― Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between