All This Has Nothing to Do with Me Quotes

“The issue of the mysterious power of transmission arises here. What do you transmit to your child? Blonde hair, blue eyes, very small feet? But also a taste for cigarettes, panettone, boys with guitars? Is this foetus’s life destined to be filled with suitcases packed in the middle of the night, suitcases that will always return to their point of departure some weeks later?

In other words, is this foetus destined to relive, again and again, emotions encoded in a fossilized region of its brain and thus, almost simultaneously, experience love and the end of the world, hope and lightning, a romantic comedy and a horror film?”
― Monica Sabolo, All This Has Nothing to Do with Me

“10:12am, 26 September 2011, MS to XX.
You’re in the process of losing me, you know.

11:58am, 26 September 2011, XX to MS.
But we’ve already lost each other.”
― Monica Sabolo, All This Has Nothing to Do with Me

“I thought it would be different with me.”
― Monica Sabolo, All This Has Nothing to Do with Me