Baleineau

“L'exil accélère l'oubli.
L'exil va vite. Il suffit de quelques mois parfois, d'une année ou deux, pour que le pays qui était le sien ne soit plus le même.”
― Nahal Tajadod, Elle joue

“Arrête de pleurer. Ne sais-tu pas que tes larmes vont se changer en pluie, que la vapeur sortant de ta bouche va se changer en brume et que ton frère qui est mort ne pourra pas trouver son chemin vers sa future existence ?”
― Kunzang Choden

“Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing