nayadri

“Death isn't the only way to die, though it can be argued that it is the most merciful.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of
anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.”
― Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships

“Life went on. That was the terrible thing. They were ripped out of their world, their lives, their sense of who and what they were. Their history. They were killed, or made to watch the people they loved die. And then, at some point, they were hungry. Thirsty. They had to piss. Someone told a joke, and they laughed, however darkly. They washed dishes. Changed clothes. Held funerals. It felt like it should have stopped, all of it, and it didn’t. The slow, low pulse of being alive kept making its demands, no matter what. However bad it was, however mind-breaking and strange and painful, the mundane insisted on its cut.”
― James S.A. Corey, The Mercy of Gods

“I'm not especially easy to fool, but I am a romantic, which I suppose means at the right hour, I'm everybody's fool.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension