Immigration Quote by Kapka Kassabova

“...dancing with someone who is causing you pain is a bit like trying to smile while having a tooth extracted.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“...'Not all dreams get broken. We all need dreams.'...”

— Kapka Kassabova

“...what exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?”

— Kapka Kassabova

“I managed to convince myself that I’d left Bulgaria behind for good. I chose to see emigration and globe-trotting as an escape, not as…

— Kapka Kassabova

“I left Bulgaria when I was a seventeen-year-old East European, and I am now, by all appearances, a 32-year-old ‘global soul’. But everybody needs…

— Kapka Kassabova

“Something must be done!’ ‘It’s because you don’t live here,’ Blago snorted. ‘You still believe in justice.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“People die crossing borders, and sometimes just being near them. The lucky ones are reborn on the other side.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“It’s precisely when you have lost your roots that everywhere you go matters hugely.”

— Kapka Kassabova

“It’s funny,’ Rado says, ‘I can only be Bulgarian when I’m in France. Here, I’m semi-French. Everything is funny and bizarre, and I laugh…

— Kapka Kassabova

“Traveling around the country where you grew up , lost some of your virginity and a few of your illusions, acquired some lasting neuroses,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“sealed zinc coffins, like the fallen Russian soldiers in Afghanistan – so that no one would know how they had really died.”

— Kapka Kassabova