Quotes from Karen Tei Yamashita

Everyone's got a version of the same story, or maybe there's no such thing as the same story; it's a different story every time.

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a moment, everything could fold itself up, and time stand still.

I have heard Brazilian children say that whatever passes through the arc of the rainbow becomes its opposite. But what is the opposite of a bird? Or for what matter, a human being? And what then, in the great rain forest, where, in its season, the rain never ceases and the rainbows are myriad?

And Darcy was so perfect, he was just plain boring.

In this city, you have to risk your life; go farther, and pay more to be poor.

Looks like they can't talk. Why not? War does that. You can't talk.