EVE

“Talking to yourself can be useful. And writing means being overheard.”
― Zadie Smith, Intimations

“You're technically childless, exempt mother,
more bound to blood ritual than your kin,
yet this work satisfies you. You'd like to downgrade
into human. Then what? Amorality, osteoporosis
and not even a marble estuary for the ages.”
― Carmen Giménez Smith, Milk and Filth

“Rapture of the rivers,
banks of thicket and fragrance,
sudden boulders, burnt-out trees,
and land, ample and lonely...
[from Isla Negra]”
― Pablo Neruda

“There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction. This may very well describe why we write memoir, for it is often in the delayed reaction, long after the actual living, that we can fully savor the fruits of our experience.
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Our stories are important, for it is through them that we discover our humanness and the universality of our personal lives.
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"I have never witnessed war or brutality or anything like what you've described. And hopefully I never will. But we need to be reminded of both the worst and the best of what is human."
[Foreword of Shimmering Images by Lisa Dale Norton]”
― Hal Zina Bennett