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“Can we put aside our training in political correctness and let pain, that inarticulate beast, sound its impossible noise? Can we listen together differently?”
― Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You

“But guilt at the missing details hampered my ability to remember, forced me to put off asking more detailed questions. It was already clear that I would one day (when I became that better version of myself) open a special notebook and sit down with my mother, and she would start at the very beginning, and then there would be some meaning to it all – and a system, a family tree, and every cousin and nephew would be in their rightful place, and at the end of it there would be a book.”
― Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory

“I believe in the future. I think you need to imagine a future and then live in it. I believe in unfathomable quantities of nourishment.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees

“I have to go back/ to that wet black thing/ dead in the road. I have to turn around./ I must put my face in it.”
― Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems