lost bodies Quotes

“i smile. things taken for granted have a way of catching you offguard when you least expect it, and then you're taken by what the portuguese calls saudade, a sense of longing for something, someone not there anymore.”
― Yeow Kai Chai, lost bodies: poems between portugal and home

“I had begun reading the book on the plane just after take-off. And I realised that something does happen to you when you read fiction above ground: The intensity of each word and phrase is magnified and the world which the writer has created for you takes on a greater dimension than before. After a while, you can't tell fiction from fact.”
― Phan Ming Yen, lost bodies: poems between portugal and home

“Pages burnt, memories buried, I wake
or think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?”
― Yong Shu Hoong, lost bodies: poems between portugal and home