Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you’re so impossibly close is unbearable.
~ Herta Müller
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Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you’re so impossibly close is unbearable.
~ Herta Müller
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There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.
~ Herta Müller
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I don’t know if I can’t sleep because I am trying to recall the objects, or whether I struggle to recall them because I can’t sleep.
~ Herta Müller
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If you don’t have the right things, you improvise, and the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they’re what you have.
~ Herta Müller
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A lot of people think packing a suitcase is something you learn through practice, like singing or praying.
~ Herta Müller
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