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“The tales told by the dead are fundamentally different, because their stories are not told to conceal their wounds.”
― Yōko Tawada, Where Europe Begins

“Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“During the night, there had been a sound of water on the other side of the wall. In my sleep I was looking out from the fourth-floor bedroom at nearby buildings bathed in rain, gleaming with neon and streetlamp colours.”
― Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light

“What we live and what lives inside us.”
― Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies