“You were the one who made me read Cavafy — have you forgotten your own poet? You think you can leave your native land because so many people have done it, so why shouldn't you? After all, the world is full of immigrants, runaways, exiles ... Encouraged, you break free and travel as far as you can, then one day, you look back and realize it was coming with you all along, like a shadow. Everywhere we go, it'll follow us, this city, this island.”