Swallowing Mercury Quotes

“What a strange world this is," he said to me suddenly when the bus turned into Pulaski Street. "Before I've even had time to blink, they're already calling me old, when inside I'm like an unripe fruit.”
― Wioletta Greg, Swallowing Mercury

“We walked in silence towards Swinica, beyond which the road, worn by long-distance lorries, twisted and turned; we walked slowly, like one walks after midnight Mass, like my father coming home on Sunday from a fishing trip or from a little game of poker, like the curate after administering extreme unction, like my grandmother returning from the fields dragging a pram, in which instead of her first-born, prematurely dead daughter, there lay a bunch of ripe poppy heads covered with a kerchief.”
― Wioletta Greg, Swallowing Mercury