Chandler

“Teenagers are often feared, precisely because they are often exposing the hypocrisy of parents, and of the world around them.”
― bell hooks, The Will to Change, Men, Masculinity, and Love

“I still feel like
the world
is a piece
of bread

I’m holding
out half
to you.”
― Eileen Myles, School of Fish

“As members of human society, perhaps the most difficult task we face daily is that of touching one another–whether the touch is physical, moral, emotional, or imaginary. Contact is crisis. As the anthropologists say, 'Every touch is a modified blow.' The difficulty presented by any instance of contact is that of violating a fixed boundary, transgressing a closed category where one does not belong.”
― Anne Carson

“How can I fix this? Do I want this fixed? I wouldn't want to live not knowing the goodness of Susannah. She is fresh air, and warmth, and mornings in July. What is there to fix? There is evil in my yearning, I know, I just can't see where yet. And does it matter? There is no way that she has the same feeling that she found in me. We aren't a match, not like that. Susannah is golden sunlight, and I am a struggling sapling at best, crippled by heliotropism; she does not need me the way that I need her. But then, how could she recognise this odd sort of attraction if she did not know it herself?”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn