Helena

“I have been birds and branches. I have been bees and wolves. I have been ether flooding the void between stars, tangling their breath into networks of song. I have been fish and plankton and humus, and all these have been me.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.”
― ruth ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“So then you ask her when her birthday is, and she says, “Hmm, I don’t really remember being born”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being