Moss Mountains

“He doesn’t lock her in her room or in the house. He doesn’t have to. He turns her mind into a prison.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“There are photographs of both of us, taken at about the same time: I am eighteen, she is nearly forty. Today I could almost be her mother and the grandmother of that sad-eyed girl. I am so sorry for them – for me because I am so young and I understand nothing; for her because her future is closed and she has never understood anything.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death

“I guess you need to have a home before you can run away from it, I thought, and I felt it in my heart.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“Okay.” Hai nodded, but his mind was somewhere else. “Hey. Do you think a life you can’t remember is still a good life?” The question sounded almost silly aloud. “I mean, like—” “Yes,” said Sony. “Why’s that?” “Because someone else will remember it.”
― Ocean Vuong, The Emperor of Gladness