Aili

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us.”
― Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”
― Bertolt Brecht

“I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis