Tsundoku

“We reached for each other, and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake loving him in silence.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.”
― Qiu Miaojin, Last Words from Montmartre

“We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

“How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants