Julia

“The truth is that all of us have multiple identities -- if only because all of us were children once, then teenagers, and are these things no longer, yet are them still.”
― Nancy Huston, Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile

“A person who decides, voluntarily, as an adult, unconstrained by outside circumstances, to leave her native land and adopt a hitherto unfamiliar language and culture, has to face the fact that for the rest of her life she will be involved in theatre, imitation, make-believe.”
― Nancy Huston, Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile

“Who am I, in French? I really don't know -- a bit of everything, perhaps.”
― Nancy Huston, Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile

“People in exile are rich -- rich with the accumulated sum of their contradictory identities.”
― Nancy Huston, Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exile