Noémie

“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Over the years I have learned that grief is contagious. You can catch it if you get too close.”
― Ella Baxter, New Animal

“What if I’m a beautiful wound people dance inside of?”
― Billy-Ray Belcourt, A Minor Chorus

“At the end of class, he stops me on my way out the door and hands me my essay on Lavinia from Titus Andronicus. I focused on her torn-out tongue and torn-off hands, her subsequent silence, the failure of language in the face of rape.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa