“ How to live away from places and people I love. Joseph Brodsky was right. So were Nabokov and Conrad. They were artists who never returned. Each had tried, in his own way, to cure himself of his count… Hisham Matar
“ There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible. Hisham Matar
“ I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth. Hisham Matar
“ There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an… Hisham Matar
“ And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest. Hisham Matar
