“She wasnt looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.”

“Life after human life I chased her, but they dont believe in magic things.”

“Thats why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It cant be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasnt smart enough to tell you about the wine.”

“She wasn’t looking at herself in the glass, but out at a great silver moon hanging beyond a thin metal balcony that looked over the grey towers of a human city.”

“Life after human life I chased her, but they don’t believe in magic things.”

“Thats why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It cant be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasnt smart enough to tell you about the wine.”

“I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.”

“But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“I know what you are learning to endure. There is nothing to be done. Make sure nothing is wasted. Take notes. Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In lif...”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”