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Marie NDiaye
“Cependant, n'étant pas certaine qu'on me parlait bien de mes sœurs, je n'y prêtai guère attention. Et puis, me disais-je, quand bien même? Est-ce qu’il est de mon ressort de veiller sur mes sœurs, de m'occuper d'elles, de leur montrer de l'affection ? Non, ce n'est pas de mon ressort. Ayant été élevées dans l'affrontement, la jalousie et l’acrimonie, nous ne pouvons, même adultes, effacer de nos souvenirs ce torrent d’aigreur et nous aimer les unes les autres. Nous pouvons nous rencontrer aimablement mais nous ne pouvons certainement pas nous aimer. C’est ainsi que deux années se passèrent, dans l'éloignement et l'indifférence.”
Marie NDiaye, Self-Portrait in Green

Tanya Tagaq
“I mourn them, but I understand that there is danger in mourning for those who would not mourn for you in return. Empathy is for those who can afford it. Empathy is for the privileged. Empathy is not for Nature.”
Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

Marie NDiaye
“Comment faire, face à une telle mélancolie ? Contre la mélancolie, contre les regrets, le bon sens et le cynisme ne peuvent rien. Elle ne regrette pas ce qui a été mais ce qui aurait dû, ce qui aurait pu être si elle avait, à l'époque, fait un autre choix, et elle regrette d’avoir fait le choix qu'elle a fait, la voie du malheur. Certes, elle ne dit rien de tout cela. Je le devine à sa dureté contrainte.”
Marie NDiaye, Self-Portrait in Green

Sheila Heti
“But you will be back, and you will always be here. Don’t think that in death you go far from the earth; you remain down here with everything—the part of you that loved, which is the most important part. That part of you will patiently be here as the earth changes colour, exhausts itself, breathes in fresh life again, and revives. That part of you will be here all along, through that whole entire time, while the slugs make their sluggish art, beautiful little swirls in the mud, and whatever will populate the sea, and the greatest beasts that will ever be; slippery with green gills and lots of scales, feathers and fur. Even the swimming creatures will have their own ways of moving which will be radically new. And you will be here for that, too! Why am I so stuck in the art of the past? Because you are stuck in this situation, thinking it is the only one. There will be a second draft, and the part of you that loves, which is the best part of you, and the most eternal part, will be in the bears, the lizards, the mammoths, and the birds, there in the second draft of life.”
Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“Too late I realise that she has been the Summer of my life. What a slow and painful death this shall be.”
Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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