Emily

“Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.”
― Jackie Kay, Trumpet

“You're in love with impossibility”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.”
― Brian Friel