Edmund de Waal Quotes

• With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

  Edmund de Waal

  Travel, Moving, Home

  Edmund de Waal (2010). “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance”, p.22, Random House

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• With languages, you are at home anywhere

  Edmund de Waal

  Home, Language

  Edmund de Waal (2010). “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance”, p.22, Random House

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• The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

  Edmund de Waal

  Let It Go, Generations, Problem

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• Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.

  Edmund de Waal

  Memories, Two, Rivers

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