Mari M

“Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Your heart and mine are being pulled apart to such different, distant places. Yours is overflowing with warmth and life and sounds and smells, but mine is growing cold and hard at a terrifying pace. At some point it will break into a thousand pieces, shards of ice that will dissolve.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow.”
― Cisneros Sandra