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quote 2015-01-28 20:20

"Too much has happened to put right. I would need another life. No, several lives. Another hundred years. No, more, to unravel this knotted mess. Too tired even to begin. Wouldn't know where or how. Maybe what's done is done. It cannot be undone, only understood. [...] I must sit down. No, lie down. Rest these eyes, tired of trying not to see. Rest this mouth. Stop tasting the sourness there. Forget. Memory is pain trying to resurrect itself."

The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar, Forgetting

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quote 2015-01-28 14:58

Claire's story time

"The first lash ripped a hole in my head and I screamed for my son, who fell as silent as the grass and trees. My two remaining daughters cried with their children and grandchildren and begged Mr Sanders for leniency. They begged and cried. The night was torn to ribbons by their grief."

The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar, Chapter 1: Whitechapel

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quote 2015-01-19 20:51

Claire's story time

"Must stop noticing the cook when she crosses room. She must notice me noticing her. Although I haven't noticed her noticing me noticing her."

The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar, Chapter 3: Sanders Senior

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quote 2015-01-19 20:47

Claire's story time

"The future is just more of the past waiting to happen."

The Longest Memory by Fred D'Aguiar, Remembering

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quote 2014-04-29 18:05

There Might Be Cupcakes and Books

While the controversy between Freud and Jung concerned theoretical matters, the exchange could not have been more personal; Anna Freud later remembered that the summer of 1913, just before their final break, was the only time she could remember her father depressed.