Joshua Short

“This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet —”
― Kobayashi Issa

“But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Beauty has no other origin than a wound, unique, different for each person, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps in himself, that he preserves and to which he withdraws when he wants to leave the world for a temporary but profound solitude.”
― Jean Genet, Fragments of the Artwork

“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life