Dan

“After you died I could not hold a funeral,
And so my life became a funeral.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“She saw now the difference between the joy that expected nothing and the joy that presumed to have everything.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Oh, Ma-li, it's not that I'm unhappy. Far from it. I just want to take another step. I want to live.”
― Madeline Thien

“Most recently, these people have been emigrants trying to get into Italy, not emigrants trying to leave, and their passage is no easier or safer than that of their antecedents. Thousands of refugees from Syria, Libya, Eritrea, Somalia, Ghana, and Nigeria have died off the coasts of Italy in the last ten years, capsized, drowned, sunk in flames. History marches on, and names and destinations change, but not the injustices we let one another suffer.”
― Juliet Grames, The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna