Alex Kennell

“Yet you still value the things you've lost the most. Because the things you've lost are still perfect in your head. They never rusted. They never broke. They are made of the memories you once had, which only grew rosier and brighter, day by day. They are made of the dreams of how wonderful things could have been and must never suffer the indignity of actually still existing. Of being real. Of having flaws. Of breaking and deteriorating. Only the things you no longer have will always be perfect.”
― Iain S. Thomas

“At times I fake my enthusiasm. At others, I fear I am incapable of communicating the depth of it.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“As a writer, I am more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

“I tried to fit language into the shape of usefulness. The world moves through words as if the bodies the words reflect do not exist.”
― Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric