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“And when you have waited—has it made you sure?”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Sometimes the extract is not an erasure,
But an expansion.
It is not a cut, but a culmination.
Not a gash, but a growth.
Life has taken the suffix -ship, made it a verb,
Taken a sound
& given it momentum.
That's what only words can do --
Prod us toward something new
& in doing so, move us closer -> together
Perhaps our relationships are the very make of
us,
For fellowship is both our nature & our
necessity.
We are formed primarily by what we imagine.”
― Call Us What We Carry
But an expansion.
It is not a cut, but a culmination.
Not a gash, but a growth.
Life has taken the suffix -ship, made it a verb,
Taken a sound
& given it momentum.
That's what only words can do --
Prod us toward something new
& in doing so, move us closer -> together
Perhaps our relationships are the very make of
us,
For fellowship is both our nature & our
necessity.
We are formed primarily by what we imagine.”
― Call Us What We Carry
“He had lived lifetimes inside Hana, and when exhaustion overwhelmed desire, he dissolved, happily, in her embrace.”
― Water Moon
― Water Moon
“Sometimes the extract is not an erasure,
But an expansion.
It is not a cut, but a culmination.
Not a gash, but a growth.”
― Call Us What We Carry
But an expansion.
It is not a cut, but a culmination.
Not a gash, but a growth.”
― Call Us What We Carry
“There is no virtue in tucking in your hurt. You don’t get a medal for it, my darling. You just get more hurt. And after a while you will have to take accountability for that hurt.”
― Sweet Heat
― Sweet Heat
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