"Music of the Ghosts" Quotes
A woman returns to Cambodia to uncover her family's past and confront the haunting legacy of the Khmer Rouge.
fiction | Published in 2017
Quotes
I realized that it is only in the imagination that we can truly be free.
Some stories are best left untold, for they cannot be told without being rewritten, and in the rewriting, erased.
The past is not something that can be escaped but something that must be faced.
There are some things you carry within you that are so deep and heavy that they cannot be shared.
The heart is a restless traveler, seeking what it needs, in a place it does not belong.
Memory is a ghost that haunts the corridors of the mind.
Silence is the language of the forgotten.
Grief is a slow, unending song, a lament that echoes through the chambers of the heart.
In a world of silence, music becomes the voice of the unheard.
Sometimes the things we lose can only be found in the echoes of memory.
