Mei

“This is the burden we all have to bear, to live a useful life,”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart

“I remember my childhood as a long wish to be elsewhere.”
― Louise Gluck

“I knew myself well enough to know I didn’t survive books. They tore me to shreds. I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book.”
― Parker S. Huntington, Darling Venom

“And what shall we make ourselves from today? A memory, a seedling, a word? What can we hold up to the light and find despair has not yet touched?”
― Heather Christle, The Crying Book