“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your dear face, yet not one word comes back to me. If it is finished, tell me, and I will raise the lid to my box of Phantoms, and lay one more love in; but if it lives and beats still, still lives and beats for me, then say so, and I will strike the strings to one more strain of happiness before I die.”
― Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
― Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson
“It is no accident, Ma, that the comma resembles a fetus— that curve of continuation. We were all once inside our mothers, saying with our entire curved and silenced selves, more, more, more. I want to insist that are being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication. And so what? So what if all I ever made of my life was more of it?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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