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“Please, write your book so that no one will ever be able to desecrate my brother’s memory again.”

“Some memories never heal. Rather than fading with the passage of time, those memories become the only things that are left behind when all else is abraded.”

“Bearing that in mind, the question which remains to us is this: what is humanity? What do we have to do to keep humanity as one thing and not another?”

“The scent of acacia seeped in through the closed window, my nostrils twitched automatically.
Burning my tongue on a steamed potato my sister gave me, blowing on it hastily and juggling it in my mouth.
Flesh of a watermelon grainy as sugar, the glistening black seeds I didn’t bother to pick out.”

“Our bodies are piled on top of each other in the shape of a cross. The body of a man I don’t know has been thrown across my stomach at a ninety-degree angle, face up, and on top of him a boy, older than me, tall enough that the crook of his knees presses down onto my bare feet. The boy’s hair brushed my face. I was able to see all of that because I was still stuck fast to my body, then.”