Umama Turna

“It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love you – and perhaps this is how the whole enormous world, shining all over, can be created – out of five vowels and three consonants.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera

“The times you don’t have to think are when you get in your best thinking.”
― Kate Hattemer, The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

“I hold a strict policy of automatic grudges against people everyone likes.”
― Kate Hattemer, The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy

“You came into my life-not as one comes to visit (you know, “not taking one’s hat off”) but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Vera