Sam Duffy

“You and I are both in the business of believing in, and promoting, things that don't yet exist. The leap of faith: it's equal parts wishful thinking, vicarious ambition, and bullshit, and yet... I can already envision the moment when I open Troy's new book and find within it, among the acknowledgments, your name and mine...”
― Julie Schumacher, Dear Committee Members

“Every loss contains all previous attempts to hang on to something you didn't want to lose but had to let go of anyway, from a marble bag filled with the most beautiful marbles and rare shooters, to my brother. We find ourselves in loss and we are who we are - vulnerable beings, like stripped starling chicks that fall naked from their nests and hope they'll be picked up again.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves.”
― Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, The Discomfort of Evening

“You became a memory everyone could share / and my work in this life is to chisel at memory.”
― Ma Yan, I Name Him Me: Selected Poems of Ma Yan