Dinaw Mengestu Quote

The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any two people are charged with them all. He had learned early in his life that before any violent gesture there is a moment when the act is born, not as something that can be seen or felt, but by the change it precipitates in the air.

How to Read the Air (ed. Penguin, 2010) - ISBN: 9781101444351