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“Tell me all the things I'm going to forget."
"With every person it's different."
"Will I forget to love you?"
"I hope not."
"Don't let me forget to love you.”
― Joshua Henkin, Morningside Heights

“The day I stood shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of my fellow civilians, staring down the barrels of the soldiers' guns, the day the bodies of those first two slaughtered were placed in a handcart and pushed at the head of the column, I was startled to discover an absence in side myself: the absence of fear. I remember feeling that it was all right to die; I felt the blood of a hundred thousand hearts surging together into one enormous artery, fresh and clean...the sublime enormity of a single heart, pulsing blood through that vessel and into my own. I dared to feel a part of it.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear