Sophia Mughal

“It's this way: when you're really wise, you say: 'I mustn't do this,' or 'I mustn't do that—otherwise ... I'll be putting my foot in it.' Very well, you discover, sooner or later, that life itself means putting one foot in after another; and the man who never made a fool of himself is the man who never really lived; and there you are!”
― Luigi Pirandello, Il fu Mattia Pascal / Novelle per un anno / I vecchi e i giovani

“This was your first intimate acquaintance with bereavement. You came to know the diffuse feeling of being outside yourself, almost dissociated from your own body, as if the mind refused to inflict on the body a pain it could never withstand.”
― Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

“Unlike you, he had no past to bind him and no future to constrain him.”
― Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

“Then we’d lick up the blood, like the time when Grandpa told me about how Saint Anthony had a dog that healed his wounds when he was about to die. That was before Grandpa left Nana for the German lady, never to be seen again. I dreamed of healing Isora’s sadness, I wanted to be her dog and I wanted her to be my saint with scraped knees.”
― Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro