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“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“Conversations, in a family, become linguistic archaeology. They build the world we share, layer it in a palimpsest, give meaning to our present and future. The question is, when, in the future, we dig into our intimate archive, replay our family tape, will it amount to a story? A soundscape?”
― Lost Children Archive
― Lost Children Archive
“I'm fighting alone, every day. I fight with the hell that I survived. I fight with the fact of my own humanity. I fight with the idea that death is the only way of escaping this fact.”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
“privilege is about context and circumstance”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life.”
― The Stone Diaries
― The Stone Diaries
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