you thought again, even more viciously, in a kind of terror: He loves me.
“At the end of his life, the great picture book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak said on the NPR show Fresh Air, 'I cry a lot because I miss people. I cry a lot because they die, and I can't stop them. They leave me, and I love them more.'
He said, 'I'm finding out as I'm aging that I'm in love with the world.'
It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it the last couple of years. To fall in love with the world isn't to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry, to watch as the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt, and my throat tightens, and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from the feeling. I want to deflect with irony, or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
He said, 'I'm finding out as I'm aging that I'm in love with the world.'
It has taken me all my life up to now to fall in love with the world, but I've started to feel it the last couple of years. To fall in love with the world isn't to ignore or overlook suffering, both human and otherwise. For me anyway, to fall in love with the world is to look up at the night sky and feel your mind swim before the beauty and the distance of the stars. It is to hold your children while they cry, to watch as the sycamore trees leaf out in June. When my breastbone starts to hurt, and my throat tightens, and tears well in my eyes, I want to look away from the feeling. I want to deflect with irony, or anything else that will keep me from feeling directly. We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“No," he says quietly. "In every universe, it's you for me. Even if it's not me for you.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“my mother was very kind
her bloodthirst was insatiable
she taught me how to snap a neck with my jaws
why would I ever leave her”
― Open Throat
her bloodthirst was insatiable
she taught me how to snap a neck with my jaws
why would I ever leave her”
― Open Throat
“I watch their hands as they walk away
hands that could be grabbing bottles and throwing but instead are wrapped together and connected”
― Open Throat
hands that could be grabbing bottles and throwing but instead are wrapped together and connected”
― Open Throat
“she sees the dead man and she sees that I made him that way and her fists clench and she shudders like an earthquake
we meet for the first time
hello little slaughter
this is what a goddess looks like”
― Open Throat
we meet for the first time
hello little slaughter
this is what a goddess looks like”
― Open Throat
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