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There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.
– Hannah Lillith Assadi

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  1. I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  2. I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  3. I meditated on my childhood, vague and distant before high school, where Laura still flickered only on the edge of things. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  4. Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  5. My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  6. Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  7. When I returned to New York, it had already changed. I always wished things could just remain. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  8. With the years, we become even more ourselves and call this change. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  9. I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  10. It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  11. I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  12. I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  13. With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  14. I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  15. One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents’ sadness in your eyes. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  16. I lit a cigarette. ‘Go ahead, take a smoke,’ my father said. ‘It won’t kill you. Only sadness will. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  17. We both knew no bounds to our escapism. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  18. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  19. Find someone who loves you more than you love them. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  20. Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  21. New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  22. My father insisted I eat red meat. ‘You’ll lose your brain without food,’ he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  23. Like hunting for a dead beloved’s face among the living, in places, we find the place we loved before. – Hannah Lillith Assadi
  24. Within my body are all the sacred places of the world and the most profound pilgrimage that I can ever make is within my own body. – Saraha
  25. This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered… – Tim Perkins
  26. This arrogant, perfumed young noble, in his rustling silks and polished lamellar armour, knew nothing of the hardships of war. – David Pilling
  27. Dream Song:In the heavens A noise, Like the rustling of the trees. – Frances Densmore
  28. The Harvester was the rustling of autumn leaves, there one minute, gone the next. – Jolene Haley
  29. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin
  30. Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed. – Primo Levi
  31. Gin a body meet a bodyComing thro’ the rye,Gin a body kiss a body-” Need a body cry? – Robert Burns
  32. The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta. – Eduardo Galeano
  33. Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
  34. something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  35. The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can’t get out of within. – Arthur Miller
  36. Discomfort: the valley between the body and the soul. Comfort: the bridge between the body and the soul – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  37. If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones. – John Hennessy
  38. So those pills that offered painless relief stayed stored on the shelf, out of the strength of her reach, high atop the altar of platitudes. – JR Hamantaschen
  39. The secret to staying atop your priorities is to schooled regular times for review and reflection. – Michael Hyatt
  40. Sociopath. A label given, and a title received. A definition adorned? Or perhaps a ribbon atop a word. – Gareth Brewer

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