Quotes by Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere

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“You yearn to stay in this in-between place, where the beauty of the times you have freshly bade farewell to is still alive and vivid in your mind almost real and the reality of your new circumsta...”
— Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere
anchoring attachment beauty belonging

“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless...”
— Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere
anchoring attachment beauty belonging

“I have a habit of being an archaeologist of my own past, a sentimental collector of personal artefacts which may at first glance appear random, but each of which holds a unique significance. As the...”
— Agnes Chew, The Desire for Elsewhere
archaeology collecting nostalgia