It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [...] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous. - Ben Okri

We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ade wanted to leave, to become a spirit again, free in the captivity of freedom. I wanted the liberty of limitations, to have to find or create new roads from this one which is so hungry, this road of our refusal to be.