S. Hurley

“There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive, certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside you.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Dying is the least of my worries.
It is the living which confounds and confronts me.
But I will work hard. I will write better poems.
I will be a better lover. I will live as long as I can.”
― Virginia L. Rudder, The Gallows Lord

“Before, the only thing I was interested in was love, how it grips you, how it terrifies you, how it annihilates and resuscitates you. I didn’t know then that it wasn’t even love that I was interested in but my own suffering. I thought suffering kept things interesting. How funny that I called it love and the whole time it was pain.”
― Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

“We are just vessels. The art is eternal.”
― Kathleen A. Flynn, The Jane Austen Project