#rupture tense

[malaisequotes]

“Nature reuses plotlines not wanting to waste a thing. And so we get sewn back into our origins. The deeper textures.”

Postmemory by Jenny Xie

[malaisequotes]

“All the bodies we take on over lifetimes descending into harder rock bitten fingers stranger aches.”

Postmemory by Jenny Xie

[malaisequotes]

“Growing is forgetting and creation is discretion with a new head at the fore where the most aggressive eyes grow.”

Postmemory by Jenny Xie

[malaisequotes]

“All this gaining and letting go honed along the sharpest edges of this life’s perimeter.”

Postmemory by Jenny Xie

[malaisequotes]

“Everything carried vertically from north to south south becoming north and down. The past moves like this—The body, too, like this—”

Postmemory by Jenny Xie

[malaisequotes]

“Surely someone standing to make a profit.”

Postmemory by Jenny Xie

[malaisequotes]

“Struggles we had a name for and those for which we didn’t. Some matted from one generation to the next. Occasionally we were released from one struggle though we didn’t detect it.”

Postmemory by Jenny Xie