Ashli

'Yes, I don't like to live here,' she said, more to herself than me. Then she turned toward me: 'But if I have learned anything from life, it's that since I don't belong anywhere, only the movement matters. Traveling, being able to travel, this is why I escaped, and what I enjoy more than anything in the world is the fact that nobody is stopping me.'

- Former East Berliner in How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic