aaliyah jané

“What is alive and what isn’t and what should we do about it?
Theories: about the nature of the thing. And of the soul. Because
people die. The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that
something does.”
― Richard Silken

“I need you to know: I hated that I needed more than this from him. There is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires. Nothing that makes me hate myself more than being burdensome and less than self-sufficient. I did not want to feel like the kind of nagging woman who might exist in a sit-com.”
― C.J. Hauser, The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

“You don't realize it," came the whisper, "but, one day, this too will be the past and you will come to mourn it."

"You will come to mourn it.”
― Sue Zhao

“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous