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“I forgave them when they dismissed me, showed violence, cheated. It was all I knew to do, in the absence of tenderness and carefulness and devotion and all the other words that appear inside Hallmark cards—there, they are so often nouns, like objects that you can pick up or point to.”
― Bobi Conn, In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir

“Before we came to believe humans were
so important
before this awful loneliness.
Can molecules recall it?
what once was? Before anything happen?
No I, No we, No one. No way. No verb. No noun.
only a tiny dot brimming with
is is is is is is
All everything home.”
― Marie Howe

“And in all the stories my daughter shall hear,
it will not be princes that slay the dragons,
but little girls that believe in magic
with big, brave hearts and even bigger dreams.

She will learn to rely on her own sword
in every battle, in every struggle, in every war
because she will learn how to devour
every single monster from their very core.”
― Nikita Gill

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire. but now I know I'm dead I tell you”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury