mimo

“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“She was beaten to death, I once told some
boys at a party.
Oh shit mate, they said.
I lie about how you died, I whispered to
Mum.
I would do the same, she whispered back.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“This is the rotten core, the Grünewald, the nails in the hands, the needle in the arm, the trauma, the bomb, the thing after which we cannot ever write poems, the slammed door, the in-principio-erat-verbum. Very What-the-fuck. Very blood-sport. Very university historical. But don’t stop looking.”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers