Emigree: Quotes

• "There once was a country… I left it as a child

  but my memory of it is sunlight-clear" - Emigree
• "The worst news I receive of it cannot break

  my original view, the bright, filled paperweight." - Emigree
• "It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants,

  but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.”
• "That child’s vocabulary I carried here

  like a hollow doll, opens and spills a grammar." - Emigree
• "It may by now be a lie, banned by the state

  but I can’t get it off my tongue. It tastes of sunlight.” - Emigree
• “I have no passport, there’s no way back at all

  but my city comes to me in its own white plane." - Emigree
• "My city hides behind me. They mutter death, 

  and my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight.” - Emigree