Taylor Straus

“How could he understand that that feeling was the thing that kept you going, even when being an artist felt like dedicating yourself to being lost?”
― Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

“I listened to the Songs that the Moon and Stars were singing and I sang with them.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“Living happened until it didn't. There was no choice in it. To say no to a new day would be unthinkable. So each morning you said yes, then stepped into the consequence.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“You, readers of these records, whoever you be, you have the sun above you. And if you ever were ill, as I am now, then you know what kind of a sun there is or may be in the morning; you know that pinkish, lucid, warm gold; the air itself looks a little pinkish; everything seems permeated by the tender blood of the sun; everything is alive; the stones seem soft and living; iron living and warm; people all full of life and smiles. It may be that in a short while all this will disappear, that in an hour the pinkish blood of the sun will be drained out, but in the meantime everything is alive.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin