Julia

“People in exile are rich -- rich with the accumulated sum of their contradictory identities.”
― Nancy Huston, Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile

“All sorts of behaviour can be inspired by self-hatred. You can become an artist. Commit suicide. Adopt a new name, a new country, a new language.
All of the above (Romain Gary).”
― Nancy Huston, Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile

“The truth is that all of us have multiple identities -- if only because all of us were children once, then teenagers, and are these things no longer, yet are them still.”
― Nancy Huston, Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile

“She was the same person I had known. Had always known. Just a version that was more completely her.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy