“We never fall twice into the same abyss, but se always fall in the same way, in a mixture of ridicule and dread”

“On the radio, we listen to a longer report on the child refugees. We had decided not to listen to any more news about this, not when our children were awake. But the recent developments, and in particular the story about the children to be deported near Roswell, now thrust me back into the urgency of the world outside our car.” —Valeria Luiselli

“Sailors talk about a following wind. That‘s what writing is like. You are carried along, the narrative chooses its own pathways, anything can happen from one sentence to the next.” —Theodor Kallifatides