Adrienne

“She splashed her soul in my direction. You might say I shouldn’t have fallen for it. That I can’t be no square. But when the universe comes in the form of her, you don’t say no.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“I wrote a poem about happy times with a lady,
About how nice it feels to love and laugh like crazy,
But there is after all a pen in my hand and not her hair.
All happy stanzas have a sad air.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“The best place for this kind of training is Holland where people, convinced of their utter innocence, do not use curtains. After dusk the windows turn into little stages on which actors act out their evenings. Sequences of images bathed in yellow, warm light are the individual acts of the same production entitled 'Life'. Dutch painting. Moving lives.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“What were you before you met me?"
"I think I was drowning"
"And what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous