Danuta Hinc

“Language is the only homeland.”
― Czesław Miłosz

“she surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

“Were we not standing atop the birthplace of a certain kind of religious nationalism? Zion lay all around us. See where the Prophet left this earth, where Christ rose from the dead, where the Messiah would, finally, appear. Which of us, in this war, was not Judas to someone?”
― Tom Bissell, Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve

“Her life was no more than a ghostly pageant of exhausted endurance, no more real than a television drama. Death, who now stood by her side, was as familiar to her as a family member, missing for a long time but now returned.”
― Han Kang