Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

“It is a shame, such a shame, Harry thought,that to be a human is to be one thing, to becontained, to have these walls of skin and a singular sense of self that sloshes and slaps around inside of us like water on the inside of a well.”

“The only thing worse than death is knowledge of it coming”

“the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue.”

“For we inherit the haunts of our mothers;we are left with the guests they let in.”

“It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers.”

“Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation.”

“Ölüm bir yaşamı kaybetmek, ama seslenecek birini bulmaktır aynı zamanda.”

“But lovers are notoriously reckless with each other's insides. Even if it seems on skin-surface that all is well. That love is gentle.”

“The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.”