“I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature.” BeingFreaksFlights Book:Flights Source: Flights
“Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness -- these are precisely the qualities that make us civilised. Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.” FlightsTokarczuk Author:Olga Tokarczuk
“They are more than travel hubs: this is a special category of city-state, with a stable location, but citizens in flux.They are airport-republics...(a)n example of an extroverted system,where the constitution is spelled out on every ticket, and where one's boarding pass is one's only identification as a citizen.” FlightsTokarczuk Author:Olga Tokarczuk
“Change is the nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity. (P4)” Flights Book:Flights Source: Flights
“After the wife died, he made a list of places that had the same name as her: Ruth. He found quite a few of them, not only towns, but also streams, little settlements, hills – even an island. He said he was doing it for her sake, and besides, it gave him strength to see that in some indefinable way she still existed in the world, even if only in name. And that furthermore, whenever he would stand at the foot of a hill called Ruth, he would get the sense she hadn’t died at all, that she was right there, just differently. (P309)” Flights Book:Flights Source: Flights