Quotes from Aritha Van Herk

I discovered I was infected with a terrible suspicion of myself and my inability to stay still, my dreadful insomnia of place.

For the last twenty years I feel as if I have been waiting for my life to happen between the pages of a book, the book I am reading while I wait to arrive at the destination I am destined for.

Here is the burden of my argument with life. I have forgotten homesickness.

The first travelers were conquerors, not interested in looking, but in having.