April

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“It keeps going," I say. "And also, it will end." "And also?" says the rose. That's just it. What's so frightening about existing. It keeps going and also it will end. If I could define my terror of life, dying, loving, and all of it. If I could say "This is what it is", I'd say "It keeps going. It keeps going and also it will end." "And also?" says the rose. "And also," I say slowly. "It keeps going?”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“Infrastructural citizenship is not just care at scale, but care in perpetuity.”
― Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

“Whenever I try to emotionally connect with my mother, she acts like I’m crazy to think she has feelings to express. It makes me self-conscious of my own sensitivity, like anything resembling a feeling is dramatic, frivolous, unnecessary.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley