Cio Rose

“Learning to be a parasite is the crucible of unmet longing for that something-else that can complete you, enfolded somewhere, still perhaps hidden.”
― A. V. Marraccini, We the Parasites

“the ancient Greek word for adornment, kosmos, means both “decoration” and “world order.” (This is, of course, why the words cosmetics and cosmology share an etymological root.)”
― Anne Anlin Cheng, Ornamentalism

“Know that there is no demand, no pressure, to speak or not to speak. To not speak does not mean you have some kind of debilitating silence, or that you are shattered within. It is possible to speak through silence, to use the pieces of our fragmented past to make new worlds.”
― Y-Dang Troeung, Landbridge: life in fragments

“At the time, she knew nothing of all this. But what she found so attractive in him was, yes, a wound, what else could she call it, a wound that was the exact—no, the ideal—counterpart to her own. Guillaume had certainly had to deal with that wound, but as a doctor, not as a brother in poverty.”
― Anne Serre, The Beginners