Miriam

“She, like all mothers, constantly casts out her thoughts, like fishing lines, towards her children, reminding herself of where they are, what they are doing, how they fare. From habit, while she sits there near the fireplace, some part of her mind is tabulating them and their whereabouts: Judith, upstairs. Susanna, next door. And Hamnet? Her unconscious mind casts, again and again, puzzled by the lack of bite, by the answer she keeps giving it: he is dead, he is gone. And Hamnet? The mind will ask again. At school, at play, out at the river? And Hamnet? And Hamnet? Where is he? Here, she tries to tell herself. Cold and lifeless, on this board, right in front of you. Look, here, see. And Hamnet? Where is”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“What is the word, Judith asks her mother, for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin?”
― Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet

“„Menschen so zu bezeichnen, wie sie bezeichnet werden wollen, ist keine Frage von Höflichkeit, auch kein Symbol politischer Korrektheit oder einer progressiven Haltung – es ist einfach eine Frage des menschlichen Anstands.”
― Kübra Gümüşay, Sprache und Sein