Meï Li

“I was an orphan with two living mothers.”
― Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta

“Tom personified that surfing could provide comfort to those who felt broken”
― A.J. Dungo

“Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Heaven

“He never learned to defend himself, and if he happened into the middle of a scuffle by mistake he’d stand there, innocent and unmoving, exposed to accidental blows. No one ever hit him intentionally. One morning when I went to pick him up at school he had a cut on his cheekbone. The teacher explained that he’d been punched by a child who wasn’t aiming at him. Giuseppe had grabbed the hand, opened it, and observed it for a long time, as if in search of the nexus between its beauty and the pain it had given him. The classmate had stood still, letting himself be studied.”
― Donatella Di Pietrantonio, L'Arminuta