Brittany

“Maybe there’s a place out there where people whose hearts aren’t empty can go on living.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Bring me the sunset in a cup.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Perhaps this was just evidence that his body was adapting to the secret room. Perhaps it was necessary to rid oneself of everything that was superfluous in order to immerse completely in this airless, soundproof, narrow space shrouded in the fear of discovery and arrest. In recompense for a mind that was able to retain everything, every memory, perhaps it was necessary that the body gradually fade away.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police