“ The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. Edmund de Waal
“ Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is… Edmund de Waal
“ Even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn't grasp...' There are the places in memory… Edmund de Waal
“ With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. Edmund de Waal
“ There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch. Edmund de Waal
“ All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unste… Edmund de Waal
