RJ Boyle

“PRODIGY IS, AT ITS essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics.”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

“Is sorrow the true wild?
And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that?
For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if that is joy?”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

“But isn't this
how it happens? Aren’t all great
love stories, at their core,
great mistakes?”
― Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities