Alis

“I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.”
― Nuruddin Farah

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.”
― Ingmar Bergman