The box holding their mother’s powdered bones they enshrined in an ossuary;
Ranti Fadilahhas quoted8 days ago
My twenty-two-year-old mother crawled into the kitchen and boiled some water to sterilize a pair of scissors.
Ranti Fadilahhas quoted8 days ago
If silence could be condensed into the smallest, most solid object, this is how it would feel, she thought.
Ranti Fadilahhas quoted10 months ago
Person to whom the cure of this crying is as yet unknown.
Ranti Fadilahhas quoted10 months ago
Flustered, she takes its swaddled self into her arms.
Ranti Fadilahhas quoted10 months ago
I hold nothing dear. Not the place where I live, not the door I pass through every day, not even, damn it, my life.
Ranti Fadilahhas quoted10 months ago
ointment applied to a swelling, like gauze laid over a wound.
Ranti Fadilahhas quoted10 months ago
ointment applied to a swelling, like gauze laid over a wound.
Sophie Servinohas quotedlast year
Don’t die. For God’s sake don’t die.
Sophie Servinohas quotedlast year
At times my body feels like a prison, a solid, shifting island threading through the crowd. A sealed chamber carrying all the memories of the life I have lived and the mother tongue from which they are inseparable.