Evelina Copa

“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984