Chronicle of a Last Summer Quotes

“I asked her who would teach me about life being unfair. She said time.”
― Yasmine El Rashidi, Chronicle of a Last Summer

“I imagine that if he were still alive and I told him now that I wish I could preserve the older memories, erase what they have been replaced by, he would tell me that to be a witness to history is a burden for the chosen.”
― Yasmine El Rashidi, Chronicle of a Last Summer

“There isn't a language for what we are living in. We need our own vocabulary, not just new forms in literature and art...I cross the square towards the university thinking about this, my next letter to A, how I will write to him about the feeling of being muted. Not having a language, gestural. How do you even initiate intimacy or the expression of desire?”
― Yasmine El Rashidi, Chronicle of a Last Summer