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“After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.”
― Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

“I feel most like a person when I am forcing something to be silent,”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“my body burned like a barnful of feathers nothing was on fire but fire was on everything”
― Kaveh Akbar, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

“It's astounding the first time you realize that a stranger has a body - the realization that he has a body makes him a stranger. It means that you have a body, too. You will live with this forever, and it will spell out the language of your life.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk