Author: Zoe Whittall

Cites

Allen Shawn (1)
- IN: Holding Still For As Long As Possible (2009) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: Through we live surrounded by evidence of our own importance... deep down we know that we are merely tiny particles in a vast interconnected chang of life, but for the sake of our immediate survival, we don't focus on that fact... In moments of relaxation, passion, joy, and fear or when we are confronted by death, injury or emergencies, this larger context is suddenly reopened for an instant, like a never healed wound.
  FROM: Wish I Could Be There: Noted from a Phobic Life, (2007), Book, US
David Sedaris (1)
- IN: Holding Still For As Long As Possible (2009) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: The planes move in, the towers collapse, and people react with heartfelt shock and horror. You cry because you're sad and frightened. And then, before you know it, the images are repeated in slow motion with the Samuel Barber soundtrck and a close-up photograph of a sinegd teddy bear. Then you cry because somebody is making you and you wind up feeling confused and manipulated, like your own feelings weren't quite good enough and you needed professional help.
  FROM: This American Life, (2001), NULL, US
Kate Harding (1)
- IN: The best kind of People (2016) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: [Rape Culture's] most devilish trick is to make the average, non-criminal person identify with the person accused, instead of the person reporting the crime...
  FROM: Asking for It, (2015), Book, Canada/US
Wislawa Szymborska (1)
- IN: The best kind of People (2016) Fiction, NULL
  EPIGRAPH: After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all. Someone has to push the rubble to the side of the road, so the corpse-filled wagons can pass. Someone has to get mired in scum and ashes, sofa springs, splintered glass, and bloody rags. Someone has to drag in a girder to prop up a wall. Someone has to glaze a window, rehang a door.
  FROM: "The End and the Beginning", (1993), Poem, Poland