About This Quote
"I'm writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality." This quote speaks of the struggles that many people have when they are forced to write in an unfamiliar language. The idea here is that if you are forced to write in another language, it is because you are trying to cleanse your mind of some emotion that you are feeling. You are trying to remove yourself from that feeling or situation so that you can remember the person you were before you felt it. The second part of the quote is more personal.
It discusses some aspect of her living situation. She does not want to be in the situation she is in, yet she must keep going through it so that she can remember some aspect of her normal life.
Source: The Diary Of A Political Idiot: Normal Life In Belgrade
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