Ieren Modabberi

“این احساس است که دختر سال 1952 را به زنی که در حال نوشتن است پیوند میزند.”
― Annie Ernaux, Shame

“At times, however, during this long nightmare, in the eyes of one of us a light still gleamed: "It is not true, he is not gone." Oh, what a great and profound joy ! As though one suddenly hears that some dearly beloved people whom one thought dead are still alive.
What a great joy it is to have so many friends with you, walking with you, alongside millions of people who know that "you are not gone," that you are not dead, that you are still alive, of the same flesh and blood as mankind.”
― Geo Bogza, Anii împotrivirii

“In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Có nhớ mẹ không? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?

I miss you more than I remember you.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“But Hubert had serious doubts about religion and Philippe was far away. The outside world was incoherent and hideous, painted in the colours of hell, a hell Jesus never could enter, Hubert thought, “because they would tear him to pieces.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française