Sarah

“Among a growing list of promises I can’t make my friends: This weight will tether. You can come back up again. The faithfulness of gravity, of morning sounds. If only you’ll stay.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“And writing is not enough for me to declare: / I found my presence filling in absense / and whenever I searched for myself I found others / and whenever I searched for them I found only myself / the stranger / Am I a crowd of one?”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Mural

“What's the German word for preemptively missing somethhing so much you can't look at it. Literal translation: green green green and I hide my face.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

“And I am me
nothing more
I belong to the people of this night
and I dream on my horse going up and up
following the river to its source behind the mountain”
― Mahmoud Darwish, Mural