Dix Denni

“A day or two after my love pronouncement, now feral with vulnerability, I sent you the passage from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes in which Barthes describes how the subject who utters the phrase “I love you” is like “the Argonaut renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name.” Just as the Argo’s parts may be replaced over time but the boat is still called the Argo, whenever the lover utters the phrase “I love you,” its meaning must be renewed by each use, as “the very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“While there was breath in my body, she would never lack sufficient AA batteries.”
― David Nicholls, Us

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today.”
― David Nicholls

“It’s hard to sell the official story to people who can see things for themselves.”
― John Scalzi, The Life of the Mind