Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
Herta MullerWhen we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
Herta MullerWhat can be said about chronic hunger. Perhaps that there's a hunger that can make you sick with hunger. That it comes in addition to the hunger you already feel. That there is a hunger which is always new, which grows insatiably, which pounces on the never-ending old hunger that already took such effort to tame. How can you face the world if all you can say about yourself is that you're hungry.
Herta Muller