Justin Morlock

“Make a wish,' I say. And I wonder what goes through his mind, knowing that whatever he wished for will never come true. Maybe he knows this, too.”
― Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark

“The barbershop was strangely quiet. Only the dull buzz of clippers shearing soft scalps. That was before the barber caught you watching her reflection in the mirror as he cut her hair, and saw something in her eyes too. He paused and turned towards you, his dreads like thick beautiful roots dancing with excitement as he spoke:
'You two are in something. I don't know what it is, but you guys are in something. Some people call it a relationship, some call it a friendship, some call it love, but you two, you two are in something.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“You have given me a thing I could never have imagined, before I knew you. It's like I had the word 'book,' and you put one in my hands. I had the word 'game,' and you taught me how to play. I had the word 'life,' and then you came along and said 'Oh! You mean this.'

Every year, as close to this day as we can, let's go to the nursery and find something for the yard. I don't know anything about plants. I don't know their names or how to care for them. I don't even know how to tell one blurry green thing from another. But I can learn, as I've had to re-learn everything - myself, my likes and dislikes, the width and height and depth of where I live - again, alongside you.

Not everything we plant will take. Not every plant will thrive. But together we can watch the ones that do fill up our garden.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Dates are shit, life is a bore, pleasure is capricious, and I'm proud of myself for smoking the pot necessary to reconcile myself with life!”
― Catherine Fatima, Sludge Utopia