Grace Kao

“Men, dazed by pleasure, absent-mindedly sow their seed. Overcome by their orgasm, they fertilize us. They show up inside us and withdraw, leaving, concealed in our flesh, their ghost, like a lost object.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“It’s hard to be told to lighten up because if you lighten up any more, you’re going to float the fuck away.”
― Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist: Essays

“There is a loneliness that fills the plain.
Total.
Lunar.”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
― Frida Kahlo