Soumitro

“Stories have power if we use them well.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“I can only use the tools at my disposal to try to help others to the best of my ability, then hope for the best.”
― D. Randall Blythe, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head

“We cannot read the darkness. We cannot read it. It is a form of madness, albeit a common one, that we try.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“I have sometimes found myself wondering if the same principle applies in other realms— if seeing a particularly astonishing shade of blue, for example, or letting a particularly potent person inside you, could alter you irrevocably, just to have seen or felt it. In which case, how does one know when, or how, to refuse? How to recover?”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets