Nathália

“Memories don't just live inside you, Minette. They live in all the people and objects you share your life with.”
― Katie O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Society

“For adults, summer was different-- flatter, the way everything became flatter when you grew old, like the hills you once sledded and stood on your pedals to climb, like the Christmases and birthdays you once anticipated, even after you discovered they disappointed, again and again, until you became numb to their disappointment.”
― Dana Cann, Ghosts of Bergen County

“Just because something comes easily to you, does not mean it has no value.

You find it effortless because you love it, and that is why it is your gift.”
― Katie O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival

“There are not enough faces. Your own gapes back
at you on someone else, but paler, then the moment
when you see the next one and forget yourself.

It must be dreams that makes us different, must be
private cells inside a common skull.
One has the other's look and has another memory.

Despair stares out from tube-trains at itself
running on the platform for the closing door.
Everyone you meet is telling wordless barefaced truths.

Sometimes the crowd yields one you put a name to,
snapping fiction into fact. Mostly your lover passes in the rain and does not know you when you speak.

- I Remember Me”
― Carol Ann Duffy, Selected Poems