Reggie

“I feel as though I become a room in which the other person lives.”
― Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

“Sometimes I felt like I had left myself behind.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“Her eyes were full of urgency.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“I knew it would be a memory that my future self, old and immobile, would be glad of; would hoard against the cold nights. But I felt completely unequal to it. I couldn't look at it long enough or in the right way, I couldn't drink it in the way that I thought I ought to. I couldn't stop myself turning away from a scene which, in a few decades' time, I would give my eye teeth to glimpse for a second.”
― Noreen Masud, A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma