I take off my hearing aid when I don’t want to hear

Rosario 2022-10-16 15:19:22





The impersonal face conceals the wounds left by the war and the shame of surviving.

If there are no wars, physical scratches, and smiles crushed by trivial matters, what should be a high-sounding footnote.

Bad associations resulted in a long vacation, accidentally as a nurse, taking care of someone who was severely burned.


Can't spend the rest of my life together. Because...because if we are together, I will cry uncontrollably in the future, and tears will drown us all.


The voice disappears, and what disappears is the indescribable shame?
The silence after the call is connected, the psychiatrist needs to heal, is it shame?

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The Secret Life of Words quotes

  • Victor: He doesn't like to be with the others. He's a loner, too.

    Hanna: There are many of us.

  • Josef: I thought um, you and I, maybe we could go away somewhere. Together. One of these days. Today. Right now. Come with me.

    Hanna: No, I don't think that's going to be possible.

    Josef: Why not?

    Hanna: Um, because I think that if we go away to someplace together, I'm afraid that, ah, one day, maybe not today, maybe, maybe not tomorrow either, but one day suddenly, I may begin to cry and cry so very much that nothing or nobody can stop me and the tears will fill the room and I won't be able to breath and I will pull you down with me and we'll both drown.

    Josef: I'll learn how to swim, Hanna. I swear, I'll learn how to swim.