Quotes by : Dinaw Mengestu

Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the....

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that....

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they did....

There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake....

It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn....