Zabusander

“Q: What is the past tense of “lived”?

A: Once, I looked back and purchased vowel after vowel. I devoured the minutes which had already been dripping from my teeth. I smashed the fruit against the bowl and called it “salvage.” I retraced my steps, then retraced the retracing. What could I have done? I’ll say it every night before the day slips into rot: What could I have done?”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“To speak is to stumble, to hesitate, to detour and hit dead ends. To listen is straightforward. You can always just listen.”
― Miri Yū , Tokyo Ueno Station

“On the phone, I ask my mother about a memory. Am I mourning that right, I want to know. “Just pretend it didn’t happen. I just say, it didn’t happen,” she says. It happened. Am I saying that right?

What happened?

Did it happened?”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“I remember when I first realized I never had to have children. It was like walking out of a narrow alley into a wide open field. I never have to get married. I never have to date anyone. I don’t even have to care about sex. These realizations were like gifts that I gave myself.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir