The storyteller is a survivor, after all. I lived to tell the tale is not an idle saying. My mother was giving voice to the past, to those who couldn’t tell their own stories. Storytelling is a fight against forgetting, against loss and
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“In between knowing something and refusing to know it lies a murky chasm that even the most enlightened among us are perfectly happy to inhabit.”
― What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
― What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“what if life is just a collection of essentially unrelated experiences? Why does one thing have to follow meaningfully from another?”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Everything green just farms us, Cyrus thought. Feeding us oxygen and eating our corpses.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“The storyteller is a survivor, after all. I lived to tell the tale is not an idle saying. My mother was giving voice to the past, to those who couldn’t tell their own stories. Storytelling is a fight against forgetting, against loss and even mortality. Every time a story is told about someone who’s dead, it’s a resurrection. Every time a story is told about the past, we’re doubly alive.”
― What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
― What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
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