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She Weeps Each Time You're Born QUOTES

She Weeps Each Time You're Born QUOTES

1 " And what happens if we don’t remember? What happens if we never knew? Too many of us are here in the dark because in the rush and clamor of blood the third reptilian brain takes over, the one that says I do not recognize anything of myself in you, and so you are less than nothing. "

― Quan Barry , She Weeps Each Time You're Born

2 " Life is a wheel. The way we end up where we begin. From here everything rises—the worn path, the moon with its long bright ears. Imagine water traveling back up into the sky, the sound of it climbing like a question. Who would we be if we had stayed? "

― Quan Barry , She Weeps Each Time You're Born

3 " From the Latin for “terrible,” “cruel.” Atrox, atrocis. When did the word come to take on such scale? Endless pits gouged in the earth. The Americans in the hamlet of My Lai, some of them shooting themselves in the feet to get out of it. The South Vietnamese with their tiger cages, their filing a man’s teeth down to the gums. "

― Quan Barry , She Weeps Each Time You're Born

4 " Mon pauvre petit chou, you say, fanning her with a banana leaf. My poor little cabbage. "

― Quan Barry , She Weeps Each Time You're Born