Noël Z

“I won’t lie this plague of gratitude is hard bear / I was comfortable in my native pessimism / not this spun-sugar fantasy / last night I made actual cake / there were no worms in the flour no bloody whirls in the eggs / I always wanted to be a saint / but I thought I’d be one of the miserable ones / sainted by pain / burnt alive inside a brazen bull / instead I weep openly at obnoxious beauty / cello music comes in from blocks away and I lose it completely / is there a word for these fits of incomprehensible delight / I said it last night when my mouth was full of cake”
― Kaveh Akbar

“The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes

“What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.”
― John Shelby Spong

“‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass