Honor

“Be proud of your place in the cosmos. It is so small. And yet it is.”
― Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe

“History, both the arm holding down the drowning body and the voice claiming the water is holy.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“But here is the truth of nostalgia: We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all the possibilities that were open to us but that we didn’t take.”
― Joseph Fink, Mostly Void, Partially Stars