Kylie

“Because there is trust too, in feeling small.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

“Even when I’m caught off guard by a lathery shade of peach on the bottom corner of a painting at the Met, as if being reminded that I haven’t seen all the colors, and how there’s more to see, and how one color’s newness can invalidate all of my sureness.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

“it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles”
― Frank O'Hara

“A nook person finds the dog at the party; drinks wine from a mug; sits on the floor and braids carpet tassels only to become self-conscious and unbraid them.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays