Mella Dumali

“The only way is through.” And the way through is to feel.”
― Ezzie Spencer, Lunar Abundance: Cultivating Joy, Peace, and Purpose Using the Phases of the Moon

“Whenever I find it hard to know what to do with myself, I imagine I have a zip fastener in my belly, from my neck to my groin, and that I’m slowly undoing it, from top to bottom. And then I pull my arms out of my arms, my legs out of my legs, and take my head off my head. As I extract myself from my own body, it falls off me like old clothes. Underneath them I’m finer, soft, almost transparent. I have a body like a Jellyfish, white, milky, phosphorescent. This fantasy is the only thing capable of bringing me relief. Oh yes, then I am free.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“Perhaps tiny signs reveal this sort of cosmic event to us, but we don’t notice them either”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

“The new cavities in my heart search for things to burn. They drive me to burn things and I can stop only when everything is in ashes.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police