valia

“There are people who say that "when you reject one thing about me, I take it as a full rejection of me as a person".”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“I suppose you do love me, in your way,” I said to him one night close to dawn when we lay on the narrow bed. “And how else should I love you —in your way?” he asked. I am still thinking about that.”
― Anne Carson, Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“But I was happy to be falling apart. Getting hurt absolved me something. I thought it would lower the bar for other people to accept me... and then I could find a place where I belonged.
But I still wasn't anywhere close to the welcoming kindness of a hospital bed.”
― Kabi Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
― Mahmoud Darwish