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“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“The house [was] scrubbed from top to bottom, and when they finished, the exhausted workmen did the same thing they did every year: they stood back and gazed at the old house with their hands on their hips, shaking their heads like a mother who had just washed her sons face ten times only to realize that he was just plain ugly in the first place.”
― James McBride

“Painting saved me, but I can’t say I loved painting. I painted because I needed to. What I really loved, what I love, is having-painted. That was the high. Making something that would never have existed in the entirety of humanity had I not been there at that specific moment to make it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“I believe that with seven billion people knocking about, there’s bound to be at least a couple hundred you could happily spend the rest of your life with. Some of whom you’ll never meet. Some of whom you’ll meet at the wrong time. And some of whom you’ll meet and never even know you met.”
― Hazel Hayes, Better by Far