Saurabh Levin

“We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“I’m a widowed house, cloistered in itself, haunted by shy and furtive ghosts. I’m always in the next room, or they are, and the trees loudly rustle all around me. I wander and find; I find because I wander.

And during all of this I walk down the street, a wandering sleephead, a stray leaf. Some slow wind has swept me off the ground and I drift, like the end of twilight, among the details of the landscape. My eyelids weigh heavy on my dragging feet. Because I’m walking I feel like sleeping. My mouth is shut as if to seal my lips.

I walk the way a ship sinks.


from "The Faceless Biography”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“But you say you respect difference."
"Different strengths we respect. Not weakness. What is the use in not actively engaging life? It passes anyhow.

She thought of the asylum. "Sometimes you have no choice.”
― Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time