Rumana Nawrin

“Let me hold your heart like a flower lest it bloom and collapse.”
― Anne Sexton

“We become merciful, she wrote, when we behave as the “concerned reader of a novel,” understanding each person’s life as a “complex narrative of human effort in a world full of obstacles.”
― Martha Nussbaum

“This day of torment, of craziness, of foolishness—only love can make it end in happiness and joy. —W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro (1786)”
― Martha C. Nussbaum, Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice

“I should be working and not writing you. But this is a missing you, where are you, hello and necessary for my soul.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters