“Emira was a bit late to adulthood, that she should have moved on to something else, and that she currently held a job that thirteen-year-olds were trusted to do.”
― Such a Fun Age
― Such a Fun Age
“Unwittingly you realize how many things in a clinic are potentially charged with hidden violence, as Foucault would say.”
― Time Shelter
― Time Shelter
“It’s nice to know your home country so well that you can leave it shortly before the trap springs.”
― Time Shelter
― Time Shelter
“The bodies of the missing, if unearthed, would be taken care of by their loved ones and given the proper burials they deserved. But even those who would never be found were not exactly foresaken. Nature tended to them. Wild thyme and sweet marjoram grew from the same soil, the ground splitting open like a crack in a window to make way for possibilities. Myriad birds, bats, and ants carried those seeds far away, where they would grow into fresh vegetation. In the most surprising ways, the victims continued to live. Because that it was nature did to death. It transformed abrupt endings into a thousand new beginnings.”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“In the end, in the referendum people chose the years when they were young....There was a certain injustice in that - choosing the time the next generation would live in. As happens in all elections, actually.”
― Time Shelter
― Time Shelter
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