Life in Suspension Quotes

“I now wear the memory of nothingness
a piece of white sail wrapped like second skin.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“I become ocean, mercury, silver
shimmers, fairy tales, fascinated.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“We packed
whole lives into bundles in search
of what chooses us, what wants to come
back to the surface, what needs to be said.
We had so many dreams
we didn’t know what to make of them.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“On the wall of time to come
a window appears.
I open it, let angels in.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue

“I hear my mother’s voice echo
you’re all the sunlight
that’s ever been in my life.”
― Helene Cardona, Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue