Inspirations

« Books are a haven; they help us endure the exiles that make up every life, reflect on them, build our inner shelters, invent a common thread for our stories, and rewrite them day after day. And sometimes they take us across oceans, giving us the desire and the strength to discover landscapes and faces we’ve never seen, and lands where something else—other encounters—might be possible. So let’s open the windows, let’s open books. »

“Life occasionally made me belong, as if to give me the measure of what I have lost by not belonging. And then I realized: to belong is to live. I felt this with the thirst of someone lost in the desert, gulping down the last drops of water in a canteen. And then the thirst returns, and I’m walking through the same desert.”