Emanuela Pascari

“For I’ve come to think one is truly married only when one is more committed to one’s vows than the person they refer to.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Now the last person who remembered me as a child is gone, I told myself. And only then did I burst into sobs, like a child.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

“It’s what we do as humans when we want to connect, we turn to what’s available, we hope it will do the trick, we string tired word stitched to tired word between us, in rituals of rough encapsulation and domestication, and sometimes it has to be enough, this noble kind of reaching, a dogged, clumsy kind of loving, weaving our coarse nets between us, pulling each other ashore.”
― Adrie Kusserow, The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems