Kristina

“He made me think of home—perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“His body, which I had come to know so well, glowed in the light and charged and thickened the air between us. Then something opened in my brain, a secret, noiseless door swung open, frightening me: it had not occurred to me until that instant that, in fleeing from his body, I confirmed and perpetuated his body's power over me.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“No pilgrimage is holier than compassion, no gospel is truer than kindness, no offering is grander than love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“They are just dirty, all of them, low and cheap and dirty.' He stretched out his hand and pulled me down to the floor beside him. 'All except you. Tous, sauf toi.' He held my face between his hands and I supposed such tenderness has scarcely ever produced such terror as I then felt. 'Ne me laisse pas tomber, je t'en prie,' he said, and kissed me, with a strange insistent gentleness on the mouth.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room