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“238. I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.

239. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. “Love is not consolation,” she wrote. “It is light.”

240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings
and soar with them above a common bound.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“A boy, at best, can adore his mother, but a girl can understand her. When the doctor told me it was a girl, I thought, Now I will be understood.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“It is what we do in order to care for things,
make them
ourselves, our elders, our beloveds, our
unborn.
But perhaps that is a lazy kind of love. Why
can't I just love the flower for being a
flower?
How many flowers have I yanked to puppet
as if it was easy for the world to make
flowers?”
― Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems