Dawn

“They will be tempted to search elsewhere for what they found all those years ago in Berlin and then tried and failed to find again that winter. But it will prove impossible because that abundance was the result of a specific overlap between the city's history and theirs. Intensely disorientated, they will find themselves unable to disentangle one from the other; and this, their sudden inability to access a version of their past unfiltered by nostalgia, will be their understanding of nostalgia.
How long will they be able to go on like this? In theory, forever.”
― Vincenzo Latronico, Perfection

“It is one thing to fail to provide for your children because you live under brutal material conditions, because you are impoverished or displaced, because your city is being firebombed; it is another to have every privilege, every resource, every organic berry and cut of grass-fed beef, and to see your child starve herself, to see her—this is how it felt—refuse life, the life you have offered. Is it because the life on offer is a lie? Is it because she knows that privilege involves the immiseration of others? is it because she registering a sense of futurelessness, catastrophe—fires, floods, fascism? Of course she couldn't tell us; she didn't have the language for it.”
― Ben Lerner, Transcription

“A character in the book is asked what the greatest wonder in the world is. And he answers … He says, The greatest wonder is that every day, all around us, people die, but we act as if it couldn’t happen to us.”
― John Kenney, I See You've Called in Dead

“The internet is exhausting, especially if you're a woman. ...luckily, on the internet you can always find someone who's said what you're thinking not only before you, but better than you, so you don't even have to make the effort to articulate your own thoughts.”
― Beatriz Serrano, El descontento