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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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“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Because a living person has their own reality, he says. The person who's gone has no reality anymore, except in thoughts. And once they're gone from thoughts, they actually are completely gone. If I don't think about him, literally, I'm ending his existence.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Everything green just farms us, Cyrus thought. Feeding us oxygen and eating our corpses.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“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
“How often in life he has found himself a frustrated observer of apparently impenetrable systems, watching other people participate effortlessly in structures he can find no way to enter or even understand. So often that it’s practically baseline, just normal existence for him. And this is not only due to the irrational nature of other people, and the consequent irrationality of the rules and processes they devise; it’s due to Ivan himself, his fundamental unsuitedness to life. He knows this. He feels himself to have been formed, somehow, with something other than life in mind.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
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