I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

Hisham Matar
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  1. And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

  2. And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

  3. There has not been a day since his sudden and mysterious vanishing that I have not been searching for him, looking in the most unlikely places. Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an evocation, a possibility for resemblance. Perhaps this is what is meant...

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  5. I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

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