Kaatje

“Jag var betagen av en ny slags avskildhet som inte alls var isolering, bara att få vara utanför, och inget ont samvete för nånting alls. Jag vet inte hur det gick till men allting blev enkelt och jag lät mig bara vara glad.”
― Tove Jansson

“For Mallarmé, the perfect book was one whose pages have never been cut, their mystery forever preserved, like a bird's folded wing, or a fan never opened.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“For to wish to forget how much you loved someone - and then, to actually forget--can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. Often I feel myself to be rocking between them (seasickness).”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“«Why is the sky blue?" - A fair enough question, and one I have learned the answer to several times. Yet every time I try to explain it to someone or remember it to myself, it eludes me. Now I like to remember the question alone, as it reminds me that my mind is essentially a sieve, that I am mortal.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets