Bless

“Sometimes he talks to her like she is a man. It does not matter. He does not touch her like she is one.”
― F.H. Batacan, Smaller and Smaller Circles

“Samantala habang pilit naming inaagaw ang iyong mga titik, sandali akong nang-umit ng titig. Nagtatanong kung bakit akong manunulat at makatang laging may salita sa dulo ng dila ay laging nasasalisihan ng iyong pagwika. Noon din ang aking pagtangi ay nasa iyo nang pag-iingat.”
― Lean Borlongan, Sansaglit

“ang iyong halaga ay labis-

labis na masusukat
sa mga hindi ko sukat
akalaing kaya kong gawin

kahit
ayaw
ko.”
― Lean Borlongan, Sansaglit

“I didn’t like it. I didn’t want any of it. I. Didn’t. Want. It.

How important it was to him to have said this, the one thing he could not say all those terrible, silent years. To have said it so clearly and unequivocally, with the last breath and strength of his life.”
― F.H. Batacan, Smaller and Smaller Circles