Leah Hernandez

“You’ll learn it all soon enough . . . You will see everything without being seen. You will hear everything but pretend that you haven’t . . . You will walk for ten hours a day but feel like you haven’t walked at all.”
― Orhan Pamuk, A Strangeness in My Mind

“The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“No matter how obsessed you've been with your own vanishing, there will always be someone who wants you whole.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“But I mostly thought about how perhaps I owned nothing. Not even my own hands, pressed behind my back.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us