Sondos

“and I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things: Poems

“Here it is:
the new way of living with the world

inside of us so we cannot lose it,
and we cannot be lost.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things

“Outside the window, a bank of clouds appeared on the horizon, inching slowly across the sky, finally slipping across the Moon and blocking out its radiant light. As he clicked off his overhead light, he turned his eyes one last time to the heavens. Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars.”
― Dan Brown

“If we could light up the room with pain,
we’d be such a glorious fire.”
― Ada Limon, Bright Dead Things