Jordan

“And suddenly you recall all the senseless time-wasting things you’ve done . . . the wasted minutes you’ll never recover. And you realize that time is the most precious thing. Because time is life. It’s the only thing you can never get”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“Even when the best things occur, when the sun is angled just enough to offer light or there is beauty somewhere shining in the distance, the voice says‚ This will not last. You do not deserve this peace. Remember that time . . . remember how he cried . . . remember how she shook with disappointment. Remember how you break everything you touch”
― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

“Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner.”
― Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

“What she worried for was not just her sister's life but her originality. She loved Star Wars so much, fur instance, that she had walked down the aisle to "The Imperial March". Would the impulse to walk down the aisle to "The Imperial March" - which seemed the essence of survival itself, the little tune we hummed in the dark - would that make it out of whatever was happening alive?”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This