“To return is never to go back. It is to find that the places you left have moved inside you.”

“The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you.”

“To tell the truth is to risk tenderness.”

"To write is to bring back the dead, even if only for the space of a page.”

"I come from men who carry the sky on their backs and call it a burden only when no one is listening.”

“The fear of oppression is the fear of freedom.”

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

“She does not excavate the past to preserve it, but to trouble it—to let it trouble us.”