emily

“MAMA: If you choose to ignore what is ugly and what is brutal about this place, you hand your oppressors an extremely powerful weapon – your mind.”
― Catherine Bisset, Placeholder

“After 1945, I, too, thought the world was partitioned, once and for all times, into good and evil, but now the world has already fallen apart again and again it's different. It was hardly fathomable, it happened so imperceptibly, now we've come together again just so that it can part once more along the lines of differing opinions and the deeds of differing minds, differing deeds. Do you understand?”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Last Living Words: The Ingeborg Bachmann Reader

“I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over”
― Jackie Kay, Trumpet

“Because if you’re talking about one person’s ma or da and the troubles they carry around with them, you’re talking about all of them, including, in most cases, your own, and the only thing worse than seeing someone’s da standing round the corner from the off-licence trying to get someone to go in for him because he’s barred, or someone’s ma climbing into the back seat of a souped-up Supra at three o’clock in the afternoon only to reappear a few hours later, barely able to stand, is to acknowledge it for what it is and not as something you catch out of the corner of your eye every once in a while and pretend to ignore.”
― Michael Magee, Close to Home