“At the trial of God, we will ask:
why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo:
why did you allow all this?”

Ilya Kaminsky, The Deaf Republic.

“I chose English because no one in my family or friends knew it—no one I spoke to could read what I wrote. I myself did not know the language. It was a parallel reality, an insanely beautiful freedom. It still is.”