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Ignoring or forgetting it is not an option, for the more you run from it, the quicker it catches you up. But it is possible to stand back from the brink. That is the challenge: how to remain on the threshold of this world, how to keep going like tightrope walkers along the wire, facing the future. Wavering, unsteady, but not falling. Not falling. Not falling.

— Neige Sinno, Sad Tiger (trans. Natasha Lehrer) (Seven Stories Press, April 1, 2025)

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Neige Sinno's Sad Tiger.

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The following day I burned the notebook in the woodstove. Winter was over and we weren’t making fires anymore, but I used the stove to hold the pages as they were consumed by the flames. I remember I set about it as a sort of ritual. I was bidding farewell that day, and for the rest of my life, to my journal, not only the one on those sheets of paper but the very concept of a private journal. I couldn’t allow myself to create an object that made me so easily accessible, that might put me even more at the mercy of any person who wanted to spy on me or hurt me.

Sad Tiger; Neige Sinno

#sad tiger #quote that really really resonated with me #I think I’ve lost a lot of myself from the fact that I’ve not been able to write anything down through fear #but I’ve kept them safe and that’s what matters most