Kaatje

“«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

“One thing they don’t tell you bout the blues when you got ‘em, you keep on fallin’ ‘cause there ain’t no bottom,“ sings Emmylou Harris, and she may be right. Perhaps it would help to be told that there is no bottom, save, as they say, wherever and whenever you stop digging.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“I named this wrestling place motherhood for here’s where I saw God face-to-face and yet my life was spared.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“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