It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor diffe… - Dinaw Mengestu
At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor diffe…
- Dinaw Mengestu
There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shado… - Dinaw Mengestu
There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shado…
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through t… - Dinaw Mengestu
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through t…
I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, bu… - Dinaw Mengestu
I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, bu…
The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might … - Dinaw Mengestu
The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did to such a degree that they just very well might …
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He … - Dinaw Mengestu
The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He …
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had… - Dinaw Mengestu
My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had…
We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish. - Dinaw Mengestu
We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.
History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images … - Dinaw Mengestu
History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images …
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