Gabi

“To be a writer is a monstrously arrogant act. It presumes that you should be listened to for pages on end... But there is much in the culture to clip the wings of arrogance, mute assertion, and encourage speedy consensus.”
― Phillip Lopate, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

“Part of the storytelling ability is simply the anticipation of boredom.”
― Phillip Lopate, To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction

“There are things you want to say but don't
There are things I want to say but I already said them
A year ago or two or five, when we first met
There were times I thought you knew I loved you
You never knew
We never were
I died
You died
That's it”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“And forgot about me
You forgot about me

And what I meant to you
And then it was over”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems