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Stephen Snyder

  • Yokosquawhas quotedlast year
    Though I’ve tried, I’ve found no way to fill in the voids left by the Memory Police.
  • Zeynebhas quoted15 days ago
    ‘Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,’
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    My mouth was dry as dust, my tongue glued to the roof.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    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.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    “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.”
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    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.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    But my words were absorbed by the tiles on the walls and did not seem to reach the doctor’s ears.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    It was then I finally realized what had disappeared: my left leg.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    “Stay a bit longer, like that,” I told him. Though the feeling was empty, I wanted to watch him holding on to that void.
  • ;has quoted2 years ago
    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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