Annabella

“You are sad because art, which is love, will be gone, but you only need art because you are stuck in the first draft. You are sad because your father had to die, but in the next draft you won’t be sad, because there won’t be fathers.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“The genitive is a case of relations between nouns. Often the genitive is defined as possession, as if the only way one noun could be with another were to own it, greedily. But in fact there is also the genitive of remembering, where one noun is always thinking of another, refusing to forget her.”
― Selby Wynn Schwartz

“At best they're very morally ambiguous.
Aren't we all? I said.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

“Have you forgotten that a poet lies down in the shade of the future? She is calling out, she is waiting. Our lives are the lines missing from the fragments. There is the hope of becoming in all our forms and genres. The future of Sappho shall be us.”
― Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho