jude

“it's hard to remember your ribs connect to your backbone
until the chill in your chest reaches around for your spine”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“Show me how ruin makes a home out of hip bones.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“I push my face against a window the size of your palm where beyond the shore a grey dawn lifts the hem of your purple dress & I ignite.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“It’s not that I never noticed before how many red things there are in the world. It’s that they were never any more relevant to me than green or white or gold. Now it’s as if the whole world sings to me in petals, feathers, pebbles, blood.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War