han grace

“I am facing the wall. I say, “I need to change the way I live my life”. She says yeah, or she says nothing. I do not remember.”
― Chloe Caldwell, Women

“You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.”
― Richard Siken, Crush

“what feels like nectar in the beginning turns into poison in the long run, and what feels like poison in the beginning is nectar in the end.”
― Chloe Caldwell, I'll Tell You in Person

“What happened was private. I was in it with Rose. She had hurt me grievously and now I was forever attached. I was in it now with all the women in the world. I walked home glad. I will die, I thought with a bounce in my step. I'm whole. Not whole like anyone else, but whole like me. Painful, but simple. It was very simple now.”
― Eileen Myles, Inferno