marlene

“Know that even in death, youʼre my life.”
― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow

“The women that survived me! They stepped out of their houses into the daylight and if I'd had any breath I would have been breathless at the sight of them. The hands of women. The ankles of women. The voices of women as they called to each other across the square.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“As my mother used to say: we had two religions; there was the Church, and then there were the men.”
― Nell Stevens, Briefly, A Delicious Life

“She had held a pear in her hand and she had eaten it skin and all. She had eaten the stem and she had eaten its seeds and she had eaten its core, and the hunger still sat in her like an open maw. She thought: I can hold you and find that I still miss your body. She thought: I can listen to you speak and still miss the sound of your voice.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep