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21 " Although only one of us had gone, and we were no longer the same people, everything had changed, and everybody—the kids at school, the people in our neighborhood and extended family—thought we were so downtrodden by all that had happened to us that we started to behave as though it were all true and didn’t make the least effort to get on with our lives. "
― Pajtim Statovci , Crossing
22 " It’s not my place, I tell her. That’s why I left, that’s why I’ve never spoken about it to anyone but you, I say, and she nods sympathetically. And from then on I haven’t had a homeland, only other lands, strange countries in which I’ve had to make a home, "