DeadWeight

“My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“A calendar was hung in the kitchen as if to say: Expect more of the same.”
― Gary Lutz

“To know any thing, time must go backward.”
― Erin Moure, The Unmemntioable

“The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.”
― Alasdair Gray, Lanark