Ariana

“Your ability to change my life, your unwillingness to do so.”
― Robert Glück, Margery Kempe

“They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier: so close that my fear of them and their fear of me became one same fear. And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to smell one another’s smells, feel or rub or caress one another’s scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another’s blood or flesh, keep one another warm— that attraction was now all one with the fear, and the hunter could not be told from the hunted, nor the eater from the food.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, She Unnames Them

“as you pull up
your socks you are
my one true love”
― Zara Joan Miller, Blue Monday

“when I stop
geographically
speaking we
don't speak
geographically
enough or - if this year
proves any -
thing it is
that I carry
your cough
in my lungs,
you exhale me”
― Zara Joan Miller, Blue Monday