"Alexa, and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from...
"Alexa iyo martida kale, iyo laga yaabee in xitaa Georgina la qabo, dhamaantood way fahmi karaan in lago qaxo dagaal, nooca faqriga burburiya ruuxda banii aadamka, balse ma fahmi karaan baahida in laga baxsado kala xulahso la'aanta tamarta u nuugta sida daran.