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“Imagine, I can't stop saying. Imagine, I beg,
when I should have said, Look: paradise
is both a particle and a wave. You don't have
to believe in something for it to startle you awake.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“She ran down the spine of the house, her body a shiver traveling over the staircase.”
― Shane Hawk, Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

“I forgive them
their unhappiness,
I forgive them
for walking out of the world.

But I don't forgive them
for turning their faces away,
for taking off their veils
and dancing for death —

for hurtling
toward oblivion
on the sharp blades
of their exquisite poems, saying:
this is the way.

~

I was, of course, all that time
coming along
behind them, and listening
for advice.

~

And the man who merely
washed Michelangelo's brushes, kneeling
on the damp bricks, staring
every day at the colors pouring out of them,

lived to be a hundred years old.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work

“You don’t want to hear the story
of my life, and anyway
I don’t want to tell it, I want to listen

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.”
― Mary Oliver, Dream Work