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Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)

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A Ghost in the Throat

by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative

by Jane Alison

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I was fourteen but looked much younger. People liked to say this to me. Connie swore I could pass for sixteen, but we told each other a lot of lies. We’d been friends all through junior high, Connie waiting for me outside classrooms as ...more

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Lori’s Quotes

“An individual is no match for history.”
― Roberto Bolaño

tags: history

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“perhaps you know that Ingeborg Bachmann poem
from the last years of her life that begins
"I lose my screams"
dear Antigone,
I take it as the task of the translator
to forbid that you should ever lose your screams”
― Anne Carson, Antigonick

tags: death, memory, trauma

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“I had not realized how far gone she was and how much she dreaded the homecoming, the ghost. We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs

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“all the tall mad mountains of her mind”
― Anne Carson, Antigonick

tags: insanity, loss, trauma

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“My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies inside the heart of each one of us when everything is taken away.”
― Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs

tags: brothers, war

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