Dharini B

“I wanted them to have a death certificate so people would know that they had lived and they had died — they were here. Because they at least deserved that. They couldn't be "nobody's nothing" after what they had been through.”
― Ruth Coker Burks, All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South

“When I was young
I wanted to be just like him.
One of the charm, of a bright orange smile
and muscular laughter.
Bold brown eyes flashing fearless
when he sat not alone
on cold blue nights
in empty boxcars.

Riding a freight train's
solitary wail
away from Nebraska
Depression, accompanying dreams
withered farms.
Nothing left but the
leaves of possibilities.”
― Larsen Bowker

“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
― Virginia Woolf

“When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other.”
― George Howe Colt, The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home