Where Are You From Quotes

“So, where are you from?" Agent Carson asked Reyes. "Originally?"

I whirled around to face him again, this time pinning him with a warning glare. Carson was an FBI agent, but I was all about stealth. Surely she wouldn't pick up on my silent threat.

He studied my mouth, not the least bit worried about my warning glare, then said at last, "Here and there."

I relaxed against the seatback. He didn't say hell. Thank God he didn't say hell. It was always hard to explain to friends how, exactly, one's fiance was born and raised in the eternal flames of damnation. How his father was, in fact, public enemy number one. And how he escaped from hell and was born on earth as a human to be with his true love. As romantic as it all sounded, it was difficult to articulate without garnering a visit from men with butterfly nets.”
― Darynda Jones, Seventh Grave and No Body

“Sawa. Кто Вы, где Вы от, и почему Вы в Москве?”
― Enock Maregesi, Kolonia Santita

“She wondered if that's what he said whenever people asked him where he was from. 'The front desk.' Then the person would ask, But where is your family from? And Marcus would answer, 'The front desk.”
― Nina Post, The Zaanics Deceit

“Kama kuna swali maarufu kuliko yote katika kitabu cha 'Kolonia Santita' ni "Кто Вы, где Вы от, и почему Вы в Москве?" lililoulizwa na товарищи (Komredi) Anatoly-Chaika, baada ya kumfikisha Murphy katika 'dacha' ya Kolonia Santita ya Yugo Zapadnaya. Murphy hakumwelewa Chaika. Lakini mwenzake na Chaika (Vladimir) alipouliza kwa tafsiri, "Wewe ni nani, unatoka wapi, na unafanya nini Moscow?" Murphy alimwelewa na kucheka akiwa amenuna. Bila swali hilo asingeokoka.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Where are you from?"
Wherever I go,
people think I am from somewhere else!
The first question they ask
is that same sad question
that confirms and reminds me of not belonging anywhere:
“Where are you from?”
They are right to ask!
My grandma used to say
that I am from a time and a place that don’t exist anymore…
My friends tell me that I carry my home with me everywhere I go,
therefore, I belong to all times and all places!
As for me, I often wish I weren’t at all!

[Original poem published in Arabic on September 1, 2023 at ahewar.org]”
― Louis Yako