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Victoria Chang

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  • HTmembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
    That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.
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    When a mother dies,

    a house becomes a forest.
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    Somewhere, in the morning, my mother had become the sketch. And I would spend the rest of my life trying to shade her back in.
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    Death isn’t the enemy. Knowledge of death is the enemy.
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    To suffer for so long with knowledge but not to finish what was known.
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    Because after a death, there is no moving on despite the people waving us through the broken lights. There is only a stone key that fits into one stone lock. But the dead are holding the key. And the stone is a boulder in a stream. I wave my memories in, beat them with a wooden spoon, just for a moment, to stop the senselessness of time, the merriment, just for a moment to feel the tinsel of death again, its dirty bloody beak.
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    Time breaks for the living eventually and we can walk out of doors. The handle of time’s door is hot for the dying. What use is a door if you can’t exit? A door that can’t be opened is called a wall.
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    The way the second person dies when a mother dies, reborn as third person as my mother. The way grief is really about future absence. The way the future closes its offices when a mother dies. What’s left: a hole in the ground the size of violence.
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    It is strange to help someone

    grow while helping someone die.

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    When someone dies, there is a constant feeling of wanting to speak to someone, but the plane with all the words is crossing the sky.
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