Geena

“I am interested in longing, in longing so deep it threatens to splinter a person apart. I am interested in a profound longing for an unknown existence, or for a better life, without any idea of what the specifics of that life would look like. I’m not getting this right- I’m interested in knowing about the longing that unites all women, all mothers. What is that longing? How could we possibly long for something beyond our offspring?
It’s almost as if having a child allows a woman to see how much infinite potential there is, allows her to see infinity itself. (Am I making any sense?)
It’s almost as if having a child does not sate a deep yearning but instead compounds it.”
― Rachel Yoder, Nightbitch

“For we live in several worlds, each truer than the one it encloses, and itself false in relation to the one which encompasses it. [...] Truth lies in a progressive dilating of the meaning [...] up to the point at which it explodes.

- Claude Levi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques”
― Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

“it was easier to believe she was lying than that lightning loves a scarred tree.”
― Rebecca Makkai, I Have Some Questions For You

“Back then, I was blind to the idea that an institution could still be destructive even if its members were good people.”
― Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence