Julia

“Grace to live at all—none of us did anything to deserve it. Being born. We spend our lives trying to figure out how to pay back the debt of being. And to whom we might pay it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“If the mortal sin of the suicide is greed, to hoard stillness and calm for yourself while dispersing your riotous internal pain among all those who survive you, then the mortal sin of the martyr must be pride, the vanity, the hubris to believe not only that your death could mean more than your living, but that your death could mean more than death itself—which, because it is inevitable, means nothing.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I guess a happy memory is only logged and labelled accordingly if you can live in a moment without fear of it going wrong. In the moments when true happiness is so overwhelming that you forget to be scared of it ending.
But, in time, those moments can easily become bittersweet.”
― Holly Bourne

“Si la muchacha supiese que mi alegría también viene de mi más profunda tristeza y que la tristeza era una alegría fallida. Sí, ella era un poquitín alegre dentro de su neurosis. Neurosis de guerra.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star