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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How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you’re hungry. If you can’t think of anything else.
~ Herta Müller

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You can’t rearrange freshly fallen snow, you can’t fix snow so it looks untouched. You can rework earth, and sand and even grass if you try hard enough. Water takes care of itself, because it swallows everything and flows back together once it’s done swallowing. And air is always in place because you can’t see it. Everything but snow would have kept quiet.
~ Herta Müller

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The real secret is why love starts out with claws like a cat and then fades with time like a half-eaten mouse.
~ Herta Müller

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