Let Hernandez

“Does it go away?" she asks. "Missing each other?"
I think about how much I missed Maman. I still do, though it isn´t as acute as it once was.
"A little bit," I whisper.
"Enough so that life continues. In a year you won´t even think about me. " She turns around in my arms and looks up at me, tugging at a strand of my hair.
"don´t say stupid things, Sahar. You´re smarter than that.”
― Sara Farizan, If You Could Be Mine

“don't feel sorry for me.
I am a competent,
satisfied human being.

be sorry for the others
who
fidget
complain

who
constantly
rearrange their
lives
like
furniture.

juggling mates
and
attitudes

their
confusion is
constant

and it will
touch
whoever they
deal with.

beware of them:
one of their
key words is
"love."

and beware those who
only take
instructions from their
God

for they have
failed completely to
live their own
lives.

don't feel sorry for me
because I am alone

for even
at the most terrible
moments
humor
is my
companion.

I am a dog walking
backwards

I am a broken
banjo

I am a telephone wire
strung up in
Toledo, Ohio

I am a man
eating a meal
this night
in the month of
September.

put your sympathy
aside.
they say
water held up
Christ:
to come
through
you better be
nearly as
lucky.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps

“Sometimes I like to compare people who don't like women to vegetarians."

"Interesting analogy, and I do like the way your mind works, so lay it on me." He opened the door and waved her in.

"If God had meant for people to be vegetarians, a good steak wouldn't taste so divine. Following that line of thinking, neither would a woman.”
― Ali Vali, The Devil Unleashed

“True love can break the most powerful curse”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines