First time Quote by Nicole Perlman

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“Let my story remind you that behind every refugee is a human being, a unique story waiting to be heard.”

— Hagir Elsheikh

“You’ll have to forgive me. I’m a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being…

— Margaret Atwood

“They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world. I pitied them, and in short order I…

— Henry Miller

“They died, Highness, even as they delivered those thirty thousand refugees to safety. They died, but they won.”

— Steven Erikson

“I may have fled out of fear, but I carry with me dreams; dreams of a community that thrives on understanding, compassion, and inclusion.…

— Hagir Elsheikh

“Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.”

— Brian Francis Slattery

“I was moving and breathing but everything else had become so slow. I felt that I was trapped inside a still landscape, one of…

— Tracy Emin

“I was feeling unfulfilled and, frankly, rather crappy about everything. I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were…

— Charles Bukowski

“For the next thirteen-plus hours, I stared out the window at the passing towns and countryside. All those lives. All those untold stories and…

— Kate Klise

“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging into whatever…

— Cheryl Strayed