Leah Bata

“Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.”
― Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons

“Skepticism is luxury.”
― Patricia Gaffney, The Saving Graces

“Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.”
― Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons

“For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.”
― Federico Mangahas, Maybe: Incidentally : the satire of Federico Mangahas : essays