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“Even a carcass can carry life, so why not me?”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

“It was the law of the matryoshka—the Russian nesting doll—out of each, a girl is born; the girl grows up and produces a girl who one day becomes a mother by giving birth to yet another girl who eventually bears one, too. The infinite thread of life renewing the kinfolk. I wondered if the moms came here to save one of us or to find salvation for themselves.”
― Nataliya Deleva, Niewidzialni

“The question changed, the letters distorted and regrouped. […] Why did you leave, Naya? […] You left me to smoke alone in the dark. To slap my palm into my forehead, scratch my nails against my numbed scalp and pull my hair”
― Nataliya Deleva, Niewidzialni

“She’s smiling. She doesn’t hide her lips behind trembling fingers as if her mouth were an untreated wound.”
― Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke