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“I had been rushing—to finish university one term ahead of schedule, to acquire this or that signifier, to derive opinions. Then you arrived and brought stillness. It oriented me.”

“Your silence was enough to make me see my nation as I think you saw it: proclaiming its wonder by violently pulling back a curtain, taking pride in a tenderness it took pulverizing to achieve.”

“Allow me to shuffle the cards that were stacked against us.”

“If I had asked you why you were coming, you’d probably have said: I can’t explain. It’s something you’d go on to say regularly. It is the beauty of you, it’s where the art is.“