Stephen Snyder

  • Yokosquawidézettelőző év
    Though I’ve tried, I’ve found no way to fill in the voids left by the Memory Police.
  • Zeynebidézettelőző hónap
    ‘Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,’
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    My mouth was dry as dust, my tongue glued to the roof.
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    no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone, if no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.
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    “I know, but I worry that the earthquake changed everything too suddenly, that it was too shocking.”

    “No, the truth is that I was dying under that rubble and you saved me. There was nothing to be shocked about. I can’t tell you how grateful I am for what you’ve done, and I’m not watching the boat out of nostalgia, but to remind myself how lucky I am.”
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    I was at a loss at these words, never having imagined what it would mean if the hidden room disappeared, if a time came when I no longer knew what was there, under the rug. How to raise the trapdoor. Why R was there beneath our feet.
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    But my words were absorbed by the tiles on the walls and did not seem to reach the doctor’s ears.
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    It was then I finally realized what had disappeared: my left leg.
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    “Stay a bit longer, like that,” I told him. Though the feeling was empty, I wanted to watch him holding on to that void.
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    And yet, when I see his fingers working just for my benefit, I can’t help feeling a kind of gratitude. I know it’s foolish, but that’s my honest reaction and there’s nothing I can do about it.
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