Anita Du Plessis

“There is a time between being a wife and being a divorcée, but no good word for it. Maybe say what a politician might say. Stateless person. Yes, stateless.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“That estrangement, that detachment, that distance allow me to buy, without any qualms and with full awareness of what I'm doing, a pair of shoes whose price in my native land would be enough to feed a family of five for one whole year. The salesperson just has to promise me, You'll walk on air, and I but them. When we're able to float in the air, to separate ourselves from our roots -not only by crossing an ocean and two continents but by distancing ourselves from our condition as stateless refugees, from the empty space of an identity crisis- we can also laugh at whatever might have happened to my acrylic bracelet ...”
― Kim Thúy, Ru

“Blissful unconsciousness became foggy awareness which transitioned into painful reality.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“The term “statelessness” is getting at the fact that the server doesn’t care what state the client is in.”
― Leonard Richardson, RESTful Web APIs: Services for a Changing World