Amna

“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

“I am thoughtful—full of thoughts, all the time, inescapably, exhaustingly. But I am also mindless—acting in accordance with default settings I neither understand nor examine.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed

“Thankfully, the leaves and twigs are so demoralized by the earlier rain they don't have the heart to cry out beneath my feet.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“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