Tuqa Saqr

“The people we love get under our skin and crawl through our veins and fine their way into our heart. They choke up our blood flow and mess up our breathing and tangle themselves through our bodies like wire. Like razors, like fire.
We remember them even when we don't remember them.
We try and forget, but it's pointless.
Even amnesia. Even comas and brain damage and traumatic shock.
Whatever makes us not remember, we still remember.
Our minds flounder like fish but our bodies...
Our bodies remember.”
― Katrina Leno, The Half Life of Molly Pierce

“I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
― Sholem Asch

“-سحبت شفتها السفلى إلى الداخل كعادتها عندما تفكر, قبل أن تلتفت ناحيتي مرة أخرى, وتقول:
-أتدري ؟ عندي أمنية ...
ابتسمت لها باستفهام, فتابعت كلامها بانبهار طفولي :
- أن أحمل منك, وألد في السماء !”
― محمد حسن علوان, صوفيا