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“How about forgetting?" you say. "Sometimes forgetting is better than remembering when nothing can be done."
"Forgetting is harder than you think," says Nyasha. "Especially when something can be done. And ought to be. It's a question of choices.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body

“She was struggling to find, from inside the cage in which she was enclosed, a way of being all her own, that was still obscure to her.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“She sighed. 'But it's not that simple, you know, really it isn't. It's not really him, you know. I mean not really the person. It's everything, it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? You're just one person and it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? I don't know, Tambu, really I don't know. So what do you do? I don't know.”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend