Emily

“We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree.”
― Emma Bull, Bone Dance

“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Don't call yourself a secret
unless you mean to keep it.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-1968

“Everyone should have at least one magnificent obsession. It's a life jacket when the ship goes down”
― Melanie Jackson, Divine Fire