

“The first step isn't physical. It's the belief that what's inside you is important enough to repeat, and refine.”
― They're Going to Love You
― They're Going to Love You

“This is my legacy. I come from people who are in the back of the photo. This is my inheritance: to know the precise distance between oneself, and greatness.”
― They're Going to Love You
― They're Going to Love You

“My hunch is that joy is an ember for or precursor to wild and unpredictable and transgressive and unboundaried solidarity.”
― Inciting Joy: Essays
― Inciting Joy: Essays

“But by then, I've discovered the pleasures of solitude, and acquired the habit of loneliness.”
― They're Going to Love You
― They're Going to Love You

“what happens if joy is not separate from pain? What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another? Or even more to the point, what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things? What if joy, instead of refuge or relief from heartbreak, is what effloresces from us as we help each other carry our heartbreaks?”
― Inciting Joy: Essays
― Inciting Joy: Essays
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