Readtolive

“But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.”
― Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly

“It is his absence that is part of me and has been for years. This is who I am, perhaps who we all are, keepers of the absent and the dead. It is the blessing and burden of being alive.”
― Camilla Gibb, Sweetness in the Belly

“Screw poetry, it's you I want,
your taste, rain
on you, mouth on your skin.”
― Margaret Atwood, True Stories