Raksha

“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.”
― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

“Mapmaker mapmaker
make me a map

one to one scale,
without a single gap.

Map every rock,
every thought, every tree

and erase all the territory.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons that we have poetry.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead