Parent-child relationship

“She was my champion, she was my archive. She had taken the utmost care to preserve the evidence of my existence and growth, capturing me in images, saving all my documents and possessions.”

– Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“What they lacked in high culture, they made up for by spending their hard-earned money on the finest of delicacies. My childhood was rich with flavor—blood sausage, fish intestines, caviar. They loved good food, to make it, to seek it, to share it, and I was an honorary guest at their table.”

– Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"Vivo sem nenhuma preocupação com a posteridade, nenhum desejo de ser lido mais tarde (exceto, financeiramente, para Michel), a perfeita aceitação de desaparecer completamente, nenhum desejo de "monumento" - mas não posso suportar que isso aconteça com mam. (talvez porque ela não escreveu e porque sua lembrança depende inteiramente de mim)."

— Rolan

“Even before we packed our bags and set out on the three-hour drive to New Jersey, I knew that I would have to write about my father. I had no plan, had no precise idea of what this meant. I cannot even remember making a decision about it. It was simply there, a certainty, an obligation that began to impose itself on me the moment I was given the n

"Filming you with a camera is basically an excuse just to look at you."

— Jane by Charlotte, Charlotte Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin