“Being a foreigner is a sort of lifelong pregnancy—a perpetual wait, a constant burden, a continuous feeling out of sorts,”
Jhumpa Hahiri
The Namesake (2003)

Saffa:…being an american is like having an STD…no matter where you go, it still affects you…

Seattle (to me): I didn’t realize it until I was back in the states, but you are such a cliché. your look is so stereotypical…
(Seattle went to the states, and apparently everyone in seattle has a beard and wears sweatshirts and knit caps.)

kat: you look so much better with a beard…It gives you a certain level of sophistication…I saw a picture of you from last summer and you had no beard, and you looked like crap!
Which reminds me what she said last time I shaved…something like
“you look like a freak…bring it back….bring it back”

gotta love Germans and their non passive-aggressive way of communicating 😉

Charlton Heston is dead…I remember seeing planet of the apes for the first time when i was 13 and that scene in the end when he’s on the horse and stumbles upon the statue of liberty half buried in sand was quite a powerful moment…I had no clue that he had landed in the future…blew my mind a bit….

…back to reading Kafka on the shore…