Azimeh

“رنج از سه جهت ما را تهدید میکند
از طریق جسم که میدانیم از دستش میدهیم و روزی نابود میشود
از طریق جهان بیرون که میدانیم نیرویی خارج از کنترل ما و غیرقابل پیش بینی ست و این موضوع ما را به شدت میترساند
از طریق روابط ما با دیگران، این رنج شاید بزرگترین و سخت ترین نوع رنج باشد”
― پونه مقیمی, تکه‌هایی از یک کل منسجم

“It seems very American to expect grief to change something. Like a token you cash in. A formula. Grieve x amount, receive y amount of comfort. Work a day in the grief mines and get paid in tickets to the company store.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“The body is a baby's first vehicle of emotional registration, before they have any language with which to call a need a need, a feeling a feeling, an emotion an emotion. In an infant, these authors observe, emotion is first experienced as excitations (pain, tension, nausea, etc.) at the level of the internal organs (stomach, heart, etc.), the head, the musculature, and the skin. The body itself, albeit passively, becomes the organ of registration of our earliest emotions.”
― Teri Quatman, Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art

“Despite the shameless false advertising from air power buffs, precision bombing did not become technically feasible for nearly three decades, until late in the Vietnam War.”
― S.C.M. Paine, The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949