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“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

“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

“there are some who consider this way of seeing, which is to say, focusing intently on the most minor details, like dust on the desk or fly shit on a painting, as the only way to arrive at the truth and definitive proof of its existence.”
― Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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