“When we see an old person on the street staggering and crooked, we do not think that she or he contains within them a whole world, an entire lifetime.
Experiences, youth, power, love, work, rapture and disappointments – all this still lives within the elderly. Memories are not something dead and foreign, they are living matter and appear and become violently present when a loved one dies. Then the dead come alive again and everything you have experienced together becomes reality again, with an almost mysterious power.”
– Birgit Cullberg