#the memory police

What can the people on this island create?… A few kinds of vegetables, cars that constantly break down, heavy, bulky stoves,...

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Maybe there’s a place out there where people whose hearts aren’t empty can go on living.

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No matter how careful we are, we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives. Hair, sweat, fingernails,...

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Memories are a lot tougher than you might think. Just like the hearts that hold them.

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but he looked away [from my hands], as though he had seen into the most vulnerable part of my body.

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