Quote One: "The past is like hair on our head. I moved to New York when I was twelve, but you always have this feeling that wherever you come from, you physically leave it, but it doesn't leave you."
I think that this quote really cuts the center of that feeling of home. She talks about how many different places can feel like home and even though you may leave a place, there's a part of you that stays with you always. I think that this relates to Kirk? Krak! in the first story because. The boy has to leave, but he continues to write to his lover back who is back home. It shows that for him, home means that the place where his lover is. Because that is what he he thinks of, that is what he remembers. He feels as if there is a part of him that will always stay at his home.
Quote Two: "It is the calm and silent waters that drown you."
I think that this quote is very profound because it is so valid. I think that many people do not realize that many of this things that kill you, build up slowly, and 'kill' you from the inside. It could be boiling inside, bottled up. This really relates to the third story, with the father in the family. He obviously was unhappy with his life, but he was forced to keep his emotions inside himself. He knew that his wife and son should not be affected by his feelings, and due to this, he did not act on anything. I think that this was why, when he was faced with the opportunity to use the hot air balloon, he took it. He probably didn't realize how much he wanted to use it, until the opportunity came. In the end, that was what ultimately killed him.
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