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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. The more stubborn the
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“Я упала в маленьку могилу, розбила голову, покалічила руки, до падіння наступного все має загоїтись, я повинна провести цей час у склепі, я відчуваю вже страх перед наступним падінням, однак знаю, бо існує таке пророцтво, що я тричі впаду перед тим, як зможу піднятися знову.”
― Malina
― Malina
“Читання — це вада, яка може стати на місце всіх інших вад, або іноді замість них інтенсивно сприяти всім жити, це — відхилення, манія, що поглинає. Ні, наркотиків я не вживаю, вживаю книжки, безсумнівно, я маю свої вподобання, багато книжок залишають мене байдужою, деякі з них я вживаю лиш зранку, інші — тільки вночі, є книжки, від яких відірватись не можу, з ними ходжу по квартирі, переношу з кімнати до кухні, читаю навстоячки в коридорі, не користуюсь закладками, не ворушу при читанні вустами, читати навчилась я дуже рано і дуже добре..”
― Malina
― Malina
“У глибокому оп’янінні я присплю свої запитання. Вночі я молитимуся до звірів, осквернятиму найсвятіші образи, чіплятимуся за всяку брехню, я уві сні стану звіром і дам себе вбити, мов звіра.”
― Malina
― Malina
“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.”
― Migrations
― Migrations
“A scorpion and a turtle were best friends. One day the two of them came to the edge of a very wide and deep river they had to cross. The scorpion looked and shook his head. "I can't do it – it's too wide."
The turtle smiled at his friend and said, "Don't worry, just ride on my back. I'll take us both across." So the scorpion got on the turtle's back, and in no time at all they were safely on the other side.
But once there, the scorpion immediately stung the turtle.
Horrified, the turtle looked at the other and asked with his last breath, "How could you do that to me? We were friends and I just saved your life!"
The scorpion nodded and said sadly, "You're right, but what can I do? I'm a scorpion!”
― A Child Across the Sky
The turtle smiled at his friend and said, "Don't worry, just ride on my back. I'll take us both across." So the scorpion got on the turtle's back, and in no time at all they were safely on the other side.
But once there, the scorpion immediately stung the turtle.
Horrified, the turtle looked at the other and asked with his last breath, "How could you do that to me? We were friends and I just saved your life!"
The scorpion nodded and said sadly, "You're right, but what can I do? I'm a scorpion!”
― A Child Across the Sky
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