Amna

“I am grateful that you, journal, can look at me without closing your covers. Sometimes, that’s all I do: open and close you, open and close, all afternoon on my bed, expecting you to shut on me, but you never do.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology.”
― Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

“So many memories and secrets, so many burdens. Every life has such weight. I don’t know how anybody carries even one.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle