Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . . . Donor communities invest billions funding peace talks and disarmament. Then they stop. The most important part of postwar help is missing: providing basic social services to people. Not having those resources might have been a reason men went to war in the first place; they crossed a border and joined an armed group because they didn't have jobs. In Liberia right now, there are hundreds of thousands of unemployed young people, and they're ready-made mercenaries for wars in West Africa. You'd think the international community would be sensible enough to know they should work to change this. But they aren't.

~ Leymah Gbowee

Leymah Gbowee Culture Displacement International Aid International Relations Peace Postwar Relief Work Resource Allocation Social Services

In Sri Lanka, when two strangers meet, they ask a series of questions that reveal family, ancestral village, and blood ties until they arrive at a common friend or relative. Then they say, Those are our people, so you are our people. It's a small place. Everyone knows everyone.But in America, there are no such namings; it is possible to slip and slide here. It is possible to get lost in the nameless multitudes. There are no ropes binding one, holding one to the earth. Unbound by place or name, one is aware that it is possible to drift out into the atmosphere and beyond that, into the solitary darkness where there is no oxygen.

~ Nayomi Munaweera

Nayomi Munaweera Ancestry Community Displacement Family Family Relationships Immigration Experience Respect Sri Lanka

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

~ Jaclyn Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty Displacement Distance Travel

The things I was good at had no real application: addressing envelopes in bubble letters with smiling creatures on the flap. Making sludgy coffee I drank with grave affect. Finding a certain desired song playing on the radio, like a medium scanning for news of the dead.

~ Emma Cline

Emma Cline Adolescence Displacement Loneliness

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

~ Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy Angel Clare Displacement Experience Importance Life

I should have seen it coming.” The words don’t surprise me, but they piss me off. I pull away and glare down at her. “Don’t you fucking dare, Nell Hawthorne. Don’t you dare put this on yourself. You should never have to see shit like this coming.” She backs away, stunned and afraid by the intensity I know is radiating off me. “Colton, I just meant he’s always shown—” “Stop. Just stop right there. Granted, you should’ve never gotten involved with a douchetard like him, but that’s no excuse for what he did.

~ Jasinda Wilder

Jasinda Wilder Blame Colton Denial Displacement Falling Falling Into You Guilt Jasinda Wilder Nell Nell Hawthorne Pain Rape Sad Self Loathing Shame

The fish,Even in the fisherman's net,Still carries,The smell of the sea.

~ مريد البرغوثي

مريد البرغوثي Displacement Home Palestine

Displacement of 'What goes around, comes around' is Zero.

~ Gaurav Rao

Gaurav Rao Comedy Displacement Funny Quotes Humor Humour Quotes Science Witty

Everything suddenly seems displaced, subtle gradations erase borders, but it’s more forceful than that.

~ Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis Displacement Lost

He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western ideas, but neither did he feel truly Westernised. There had been times when he had thought himself so, but a glimpse at his reflection quickly showed him the impossibility of such thoughts. No, rather, he felt suspended between two worlds, never to truly belong to either. The Yellow Papers

~ Dominique Wilson

Dominique Wilson China Displacement Historical Fiction History Prejudice