Catherine

“I want to give you something, or I want to take something from you. But I want to feel the exchange, the warm hand on the shoulder, the song coming out and the ear holding onto it.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“I imagine what it must be like to stay hidden, disappear in the dusky nothing and stay still in the night. It’s not sadness, though it may sound like it. I’m thinking about people and trees and how I wish I could be silent more, be more tree than anything else, less clumsy and loud, less crow, more cool white pine, and how it’s hard not to always want something else, not just to let the savage grass grow.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“58. “Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing” (Leonardo da Vinci).”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“They were like lightning and rain, existing together but clashing at their very natures.”
― T.S. Pettibone, Hatred Day