Amanda Dee

“Where did they go, all the gods and the beasts? The jackals and winged horses, sphinxes and fish, all those creatures that weighed our organs in the afterlife, fed on years ill-lived? What do they tow now, those creatures that carried the suns and the stars, drew the moon to its place in the firmament each night?”
― Lars Horn, Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay

“When we finished with our laps we hoist ourselves up out of the pool, dripping and refreshed, our equilibrium restored, ready to face another day on land.”
― Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

“Love was a room that appeared when you stepped into it.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“Hyperbole often reflects a culture's excesses and savagery or appetite.”
― Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir