Manuel Gubernale

“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us--excuse me for saying this--but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.”
― Raymond Carver

“Si deve incominciare a perdere la memoria, anche solo brandelli di ricordi, per capire che in essa consiste la nostra vita. Senza memoria, la vita non è vita. La nostra memoria è la nostra coerenza, la nostra ragione, il nostro sentimento, persino il nostro agire. Senza di essa non siamo nulla.”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West