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You think of how casually our bodies are overruled by kin, by blood, by heartaches disguised as homelands. How you can count the years you have lived for yourself on one hand.

-- Momtaza Mehri "Reciprocity is a Two-way Street"

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X. Even when no one dies on the journey, something always does. --Bad Diaspora Poems Momtaza Mehri "A Few Facts We Hesitantly Know to Be Somewhat True"

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If we agree on the same lies, that makes us countrymen. --Bad Diaspora Poems Momtaza Mehri

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The first wave resists all. The first wave is friendless. (1830s) --Bad Diaspora Poems Momtaza Mehri

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Whatever it is that has you bound -- whether that is a place, time, or a physical defect like mine...Please do not focus on those things. Instead, set your mind to finding the things that do bring you freedom. And during that journey, you may feel like you're on the line, as if you're at the edge of a cliff. -- Dallergut Dream Department Store Miye Lee

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Freedom comes in different shapes and forms; every living thing is granted limited freedom. -- Dallergut Dream Department Store Miye Lee

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Her dream, the lonely crowd, .... by locking the characters in extreme solitude and pushing inner emotions to explode. -- Dallergut Dream Department Store Miye Lee

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"But please remember -- you all are stronger than you think. You have achieved and overcome more things than you think you have. Once you realise that, things will get much better. " -- Dallergut Dream Department Store Miye Lee

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So, you think if you live in the present, the future will follow accordingly. -- Dallergut Dream Department Store Miye Lee

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It’s not like a whole conscious thought or anything, but somewhere I feel like maybe I want my mother to find out that where I am may not be very safe and I want her to tell me to come home.

— Rebecca Walker

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What are buildings made of? In the end, money and power. They alone decide which memories will take shape and survive.

— At Dusk

Hwang Sok-yong

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You can understand someone’s life from each wrinkle.

I Have The Right to Destroy Myself

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The world is filled with fiction anyway. Kim Young Ha

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There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

Kim Young Ha

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<Harvest> What lives, lives underground. What dies, dies without struggle.

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<Echoes> if your soul died, whose life are you living and when did you become that person?

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<Dream of Lust> the human body a compulsion, a magnet, the dream itself obstinately clinging, the spirit helpless to let it go -- it is still not worth losing the world.

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