Bernardo

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“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

“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

“In a book I am reading the author talks about word people versus fist people. As if words could not also be fists. Aren't often fists.”
― Sigrid Nunez, The Friend