moonie

“I don’t know how to hold this truth,
so I kill it, pin its terrible wings down
in case, later, no one believes me.”
― Ada Limon, The Carrying

“It was never about the moon
It was about me finally seeing it.”
― C. Churchill, Petals of the Moon

“You think of love as dizzy electricity. You think if you aren't in this heightened state, that the relationship is failing. This is a lie, an infection you contracted from popular music and fantasy reels, that doomed all your short romances in the academy, like with poor Sri. The bonded support you and Kodiak feel for each other isn't about skin skin skin, though it's related to that. It isn't the heat of his body against yours at the bottom of the water tank. Instead, it's the fact that you two are together at the bottom of the water tank.”
― Eliot Schrefer, The Darkness Outside Us

“When they told me god was always watching I said, Who wants to worship a diary thief? I didn’t dare say who wants to worship anyone”
― Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies