Bernardo

“Now comes the good part. Breathing the happy gas,
I get answers to all the questions I had
about death but was afraid to ask.”
― Alicia Suskin Ostriker

“It is a black-and-white photograph showing a naked young man in fetal position.
He has entitled it "No Tail!"
The fantastic fingerwork of his wings is outspread on the bed like a black lace map of South America.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

“I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.”
― Carol Ann Duffy

“...But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was fine and happy and fulfilled on my own without the love of anyone else. Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit... And I thought: am I really going to spend the rest of my life without feeling that again? I thought: I want to go to China. It's full of treasures and strangeness and mysteries and joy.”
― Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass