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“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.”
― Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

“Unwittingly you realize how many things in a clinic are potentially charged with hidden violence, as Foucault would say.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“It’s nice to know your home country so well that you can leave it shortly before the trap springs.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, 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.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees