bella

“You’re convinced everything would be fine if we lived together. If only we could. But you live in a world I don’t recognize. What a halcyon glow our childhood must have for you.”
― Yūko Tsushima, Of Dogs and Walls

“To forget a holocaust is to kill twice.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Nonetheless, there are few things that arouse in us greater distaste than to a see a human being caught up in it, at least if we are to judge by the efforts we make to keep corpses out of sight. In larger hospitals they are not only hidden away in discreet, inaccessible rooms, even the ways there are concealed, with their own lifts and basement corridors, and should you stumble upon one of them, the dead bodies being wheeled by are always covered. When they have to be transported from the hospital it is through a dedicated exit, into vehicles with tinted glass; in the church grounds there is a separate, windowless room for them; during the funeral ceremony they lie in closed coffins until they are lowered into the earth or cremated in the oven. It is hard to imagine what practical purpose this procedure might serve.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, A Death in the Family

“Well, it was unreasonable to expect more. Already he had seen wonders for which many men would have sacrificed their lives. He thought of his dead companions; he had no cause for complaint.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey