- 'is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? when the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? is there a word for that? i wish there was.' - sarah kay, no matter the wreckage.
- 'the world begins at a kitchen table. no matter what, we must eat to live well.' - joy harjo, perhaps the world ends here.
- 'is it foolish to speak of little joys that occur in the middle of tragedy? it is our humanity. whatever we have left of it. we must not deny it to ourselves.' - ilya kaminsky, still dancing.
- 'i choose my pauses myself, when i feel drunk with the intensity of life and i want to plunge into animality to draw from it new vigour.' - antonio gramsci, i hate new year's day.
- 'mom, am I still young? can i dream for a few months more?' - mitski, class of 2013.
- 'knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. when we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.' - bell hooks, all about love.
- 'dash vroom vroom, arm boon boon. lip go brr brr, hit the duru duru' - dino, happy ending.
- 'when you look around the room, all of your friends sleeping so close to each other, like kittens, and you want to curl into a pile with all of them.' - carmen maria machado.
may 22 2021 ∞
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