Alexandra

“In writing this book, I have come to feel like a kind of immigrant in my own life, inhabiting a world of reflections and images of people I can't fully know, some of whom are dead, and I see now that my life has been shaped by this network, in ways I didn't always perceive.”
― Zachary Lazar, I Pity the Poor Immigrant

“Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.”
― Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga

“Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.”
― Hisham Matar

“Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being