We're hungry but we're together and we're at home and everything is sweeter than dessert. - NoViolet Bulawayo

There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is going to fix that.

I used to be very afraid of graveyards and death and such things, but not anymore. There is just no sense of being afraid when you live so near the graves; it would be like the tongue fearing the teeth.

I think the reason they are my relatives now is they are from my country too - it's like the country has become a real family since we are in America, which is not our country.