Paula Mota’s Reviews > I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death > Status Update
Paula Mota
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When you engender a life, you open yourself to risk, to fear. Holding my child, I realised my vulnerability to death: I was frightened of it, for the first time. I knew all too well how fine a membrane separates from us from that place, how easily it can be perforated.
— Mar 13, 2026 05:41AM
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Paula Mota
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All morning, I sift and organise and ease the lives of others. I clear away human traces, erasing all evidence that they have eaten, slept, made love, argued, washed, worn clothes, read newspapers, shed hair and skin and bristle and blood and toenails.
— Mar 05, 2026 12:34AM
