Yeser Berro

“As if to incentivize the whole ordeal, the body offered you dreams. In exchange for a third of your living, you were offered sprawling feasts, exotic adventures, beautiful lovers, wings. Or at least the promise of them, made only slightly less intoxicating by the curious threat of nightmare. How sometimes, at random, your mind would decide to reduce you to a whimper, or a gasp, in the night.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Aunts cook like

there's no tomorrow
& they're right.”
― Kevin Young

“Now, of course, I believe that it was Edna whom I went back to New York to meet. Edna was Jim’s parting gift to me. She is an annunciation, a message, very old and very new. Edna is, as she insists, my ‘home from home.’ Whereas the idea of the original home would arouse an agon of bitter ambivalence in me, the redoubled home has no colour or cathexis of pain inseparable from its welcome.”
― Gillian Rose, Love's Work

“The thirteenth shot kills me - because I am the other. Because I want to be the other.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Complete Stories