5 Quotes by Rivers Solomon about memories

  • Author Rivers Solomon
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    We have never seen a Zoti Aleyu this new, this small, this fragile. How many who'd been just like this were swallowed whole? "Precious pup," we say. We cannot think about its origins. We cannot think of what sickness plagues surface-life affairs that they throw living creatures to the sea to die alone. We must not think of the surface-dwellers and two-legs at all. Only Zoti Aleyu.

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    It was strange to be having such a conversation with her Amaba, discussing their varied interpretations of the history. What had always seemed certain to Yetu wasn't so immutable. The living put their own mark on the dead. Goodness, how'd did she missed it?

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    One can only go for so long without asking ‘who am I?’, ‘where do I come from?’, ‘what does all this mean?’, ‘what is being?’, ‘what came before me and what might come after?’. Without answers there is only a hole. A hole where a history should be that takes the shape of an endless longing. We are cavities.

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