#honestyandconfession

[aliciaitaly-blog]

“The only rules the town had for the Jews were curfew, and each day we had to report to the police.”

- Elizabeth Bettina: It Happened in Italy (210)

[cleucilaynesaustralianlitblog]

I was not brave enough to face the police submergence videos again, but watched the jury sit through them, with their hands over their mouths.

This House of Grief by Helen Garner (259)

[cleucilaynesaustralianlitblog]

I had been declared a non-person by the defense, but for the first time, I felt that I belonged in that room, that I had earned the right to be there.

This House of Grief by Helen Garner (220)

[cleucilaynesaustralianlitblog]

I kept going to a bar at the top of Bourke Street. I ordered a shot of vodka. Strangers near me were gossiping loosely about the trial.

This House of Grief by Helen Garner (146)

[cleucilaynesaustralianlitblog]

“I was too embarrassed to look at Morrissey.”

-This House of Grief by Helen Garner (44)

[mateussbrazilianlitblog]

“I never loved anyone. The men who passed through my life only complicated it more.”

The Diary of Caroline Maria de Jesus - (pg 154)

[mateussbrazilianlitblog]

“"You know, Carolina, life for me is now a bore. After Marina died, nobody loves me any more" I laughed, because he had spoken and made a rhyme. But I stopped laughing, because the sadness in his voice touched me.”

The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus - (pg 155)

[mateussbrazilianlitblog]

“He looked at everything surprisedly. But he must learn that a favela is the garbage dump of São Paulo, and that I’m just a piece of garbage”

- The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus (pg 135)