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„I felt like I was being kissed by time.
Each time our lips met, the desolate darkness gathered.
Silence piled up like snow, snow the eternal eraser.
Mutely reaching our knees, our waists, our faces.“

„The sound of the rain did not cease.
Something broke inside us.
In that place where both light and voice were absent, among slivers of coral that hadn't borne the pressure, our bodies were now trying to float upward.
Not wanting to floar upward,
I wound my arm around your neck.
I groped for your shoulder and kissed it.“

“There are neither words nor color for her until the night is over.
Everything is covered by the thick snow. A snow that is like timc, time that fractured as it froze, settles ceaselessly over her stiff body.
The child by her side isn't there. Lying motionless at the bed's chilly edge, she calls the dream into being, over and over again, to kiss her son's warm eyelids.”

“She walks in order to exhaust herself to the point of no longer being able to walk. She walks until she is unable to register the quiet of the house to which she must now return, until she has no strength left to cast her gaze over the black woods, the black curtains, the black sofa, the black Lego boxes.”

„But she knew that if she followed that reasoning the rest of her life would be one long struggle to find a response to the question that constantly threatened to destroy her fragile equilibrium-the question of whether she really had any claim to existence. Something in the therapist's lucid, beautiful conclusion didn't sit right.

„It was around then that I realized for the first time that falling in love is like being haunted. Even before I opened my eyes in the morning, you would slip in under my eyelids. When I opened them, you instantly transferred to the ceiling, the wardrobe, the windowpane, the street, the far-off sky, and glimmered there like dappled light. You haunted me…“