Anna

“What is a country but a life sentence?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I wanted to cry but did not yet know how to in English. So I did nothing.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Memories die as soon as they are plucked from their surroundings, they burst, lose color, lose suppleness, stiffen like corpses. All that remains are shells with translucent edges. Half-erased brain platelets are a slippery terrain, deceptive. One’s mental archive is locked, it languishes in the dark. The past is riddled with holes, souvenirs can’t help here. Everything must be thrown away. Everything. And perhaps everyone as well.”
― Daša Drndić, Belladonna

“...it is precisely about things which it is impossible to speak of that one must speak…”
― Daša Drndić, Belladonna