A WOMAN SPENT 27 YEARS PHOTOGRAPHING HER PARENTS WAVING HER GOODBYE
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A WOMAN SPENT 27 YEARS PHOTOGRAPHING HER PARENTS WAVING HER GOODBYE
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They would keep them and the photos would assume the status of uneasy family heirlooms, something later generations would wonder about when at last that dusty box in the attic was found and opened: where those photographs had come from, who had made them, what they meant.
Celeste Ng • Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller
Before dawn the next morning I heard my father’s voice come through the answering machine. “Mum died, John. That’s all I have to say. Bye.” I felt a love for him and also felt that my mother had indeed said farewell in a completely satisfactory way.
John Tarrant • Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans That Will Save Your Life
"The photos of them together-smiling, entwined, behatted, insouciant-were like all photos: weak lies at the time but full of truth and power later on. A weird form of time travel."
from I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore