What Language Do I Dream In? Quotes

“It is difficult to inherit the histories of those who raise us when they choose to hide them.”
― Elena Lappin, What Language Do I Dream In?

“A lifetime is not so many years for a person to play with.”
― Elena Lappin, What Language Do I Dream In?

“The world, I remember feeling rather than thinking, is the same everywhere: families sleeping and eating under one roof, speaking in different languages but about more or less the same things.”
― Elena Lappin, What Language Do I Dream In?

“We were fourteen, fifteen years old, and already knew the importance of silence in love.”
― Elena Lappin, What Language Do I Dream In?

“Our very special love-friendship continued for many years after my emigration, in letters. In his witty, crystalline Czech prose he kept me connected to what I had left, and what I needed to forget so that I could remember it again, without pain.”
― Elena Lappin, What Language Do I Dream In?

“Love strengthens the fabric of memory.”
― Elena Lappin, What Language Do I Dream In?

“History is the hidden map of who, where and how we are today.”
― Elena Lappin, What Language Do I Dream In?