Jeroen

“Still, like so much else about our war that I wish were implausible, it remains true, regardless of who believes it or not.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

“You get to a point of not giving a damn over people thinking you're worthless. Mainly by getting there first yourself.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“In this country of grief, the best kind of shelter is to be understood, to have someone stop next to me and, without asking anything, put their umbrella over us both, between us and the rain.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night

“In the Colombo refugee camp, I had longed for a book to remove me from reality. With every chapter I read now, I felt not removed but partially returned to a safety I had thought entirely lost. I tethered my interior life to the pages, which the people I loved had turned in different times and places.”
― V.V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night