Ana

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“Mientras estés buscando, tu mirada se ancla en los límites de tus expectativas.
Por eso, mientras busques, no encontrarás nada realmente importante.
Para encontrar debes dejarte llevar. Mientras vayas con ideas preconcebidas, serás incapaz de ver lo que pasa ante tus narices.”
― Francesc Miralles

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Well, I think home spat me out, the blackouts and curfews like tongue against loose tooth. God, do you know how difficult it is, to talk about the day your own city dragged you by the hair, past the old prison, past the school gates, past the burning torsos erected on poles like flags? When I meet others like me I recognise the longing, the missing, the memory of ash on their faces. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. I’ve been carrying the old anthem in my mouth for so long that there’s no space for another song, another tongue or another language. I know a shame that shrouds, totally engulfs. I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel. I’m bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.”
― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth