Laura

“Empirically speaking, we are made of star stuff. Why aren’t we talking more about that?”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“I think too much. I think ahead. I think behind. I think sideways. I think it all. If it exists, I’ve fucking thought of it.”
― Winona Ryder

“I used to wonder: Should I tread lightly? Was I walking over the corpses of those who have passed trough, and who were decimated in the nakba? Was I walking over a land, made of decomposed bodies? When I walk in Palestine I feel that am walking on corpses. The images of multitudes of people escaping in terror are always on my mind.”
― Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance

“Our deepest memories are like infinite roots reflected in the brook, a simulacrum without end. And yet every story, like every life, lasts only so long.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Roman Stories