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“Volition: No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.”
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“The sound of her voice was stinging, like a moon-dragged starvation surging into every hopeless raw vacant pore, undoing, exquisite undoing.”
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
― Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Who will be lost in the story we tell ourselves? Who will be lost in ourselves? A story, after all, is a kind of swallowing. To open a mouth, in speech, is to leave only the bones, which remain untold.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“And yet perhaps this is the reason you cry,
this the nightmare you wake screaming from:
being forever
in the pre-trembling of a house that falls.”
― The Book Of Nightmares
this the nightmare you wake screaming from:
being forever
in the pre-trembling of a house that falls.”
― The Book Of Nightmares
“Humans in love are terrible. You see them come hungering at one another like prehistoric wolves, you see something struggling for life in between them like a root or a soul and it flares for a moment, then they smash it. The difference between them smashes the bones out. So delicate the bones.”
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
― Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
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