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“To know the ocean, I have always felt, is to recognize the teeth it keeps half hidden.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

“Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.”
― Joan Didion, Let Me Tell You What I Mean

“Lord, I confess I want the clarity of
catastrophe but not the catastrophe.
Like everyone else, I want a storm I can
dance in.
I want an excuse to change my life.”
― Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On: Speculative poems tracing apocalypse from WWII's Korean comfort women to climate crisis―queer, Asian American, and urgent.