David Keefer

“If I close my eyes, I can see the goahti in the black-and-white photograph. Risten sits in front of it, with váre's youngest sister in her arms. The photogrpah was taken a few years before their forced displacement. I'll never know exactly what happened during those years, but now I understand a little more about what was broken and silenced.”
― Elin Anna Labba, Herrarna satte oss hit: Om tvångsförflyttningarna i Sverige

“Most of what happens to us goes unremembered. The events of our lives are like photographic negatives. The few that make it into the developing solution and become photographs are what we call our memories.”
― Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory

“I was a stone and lost my center. They tossed me in the sea. But after awhile, I found that center of life again within me.”
― María Medem

“Listen: in midnight moon-mist,
in snatches of lost music,
I've heard her return from the distance.”
― Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation