Soefae

“Everything, I realized, is a choice. And spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“I did crave attention, but I refused to humiliate myself by asking for it.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“This immediately reminds me of a thought I had about you months ago, during that miserably frenzied period when I thought you weren’t coming back: sat on the subway and musing over all the various adaptations of you that existed in other people’s anecdotes…a great composite of identities, none of them ever entirely capturing the whole. I’d wondered what they would have talked about if they’d sat down together – all those versions of you – whether they would have recognized each other if they’d met in the street.”
― MissDisoriental, The Shape of Me Will Always Be You

“These are roads to take when you think of your country”
― Muriel Rukeyser, The Book of the Dead