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“How do we move through all this beauty without destroying it?”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Only in a culture that privileged infallibility above all else could a man like President Invective rise to power—a man insulated since birth from any sense of accountability, raised in a pristine cocoon of inherited wealth to emerge pristine, dewy, wholly unsullied by those irksome mortal foibles, grief and doubt.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“The cactus is full of rage with fingers all twisted and it's impossible to caress it: it hates you with each piercing spine because it also feels the pain of the spine that pierced its own thick flesh first.”
― Clarice Lispector

“The performance of certainty seemed to be at the root of so much grief. Everyone in America seemed to be afraid and hurting and angry, starving for a fight they could win. And more than that even, they seemed certain their natural state was to be happy, contented, and rich. The genesis of everyone's pain had to be external, such was their certainty.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!