“...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“You must never stop being whimsical.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
“When the wound is deep, the healing is heroic. Suffering and ascendance require the same work.”
― American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
― American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
“BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch.”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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