Emanuela Pascari

“He has no friends, no living relatives. No one to call. If we are not in someone else’s memory, do we even exist at all?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“When it comes to sexual assault, how many times have we seen that a first-hand account isn’t treated as evidence? It’s not taken as the truth. It’s just a story that you have to prove... A woman says, 'A man violently raped me, here’s exactly how it happened, I remember everything,' and people go, 'Really? Are you sure? Because, you know, you went into that room with him. What did you think was going to happen?”
― Catherine Ryan Howard, Burn After Reading

“We can make the dark ones bright and the bright ones lighter - that seems to be the ambition in the community. We can fatten thin ones and reduce fat ones.”
― Rudolph Fisher, The Conjure-Man Dies

“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