Jonathan Herbrecht

“I will not misdirect or manipulate human beings...especially those human beings who love me enough to risk being misdirected or manipulated. I will not misdirect or manipulate myself...I will not say I am sorry when I am resentful. I will not give my blessings away. I will love myself enough to be honest when I fail at loving.”
― Kiese Laymon, Heavy

“Always to the deafest ear the poet clears his throat.”
― Sean Kilpatrick, The Goliards and Shock Test...

“Idaho is empty. He is an emptiness. Like the space you leave behind when you get out of a chair. It’s like after a loud noise, when all you hear is the sound of yourself listening. What is there is only was. That’s it. Idaho is was.”
― Tony Burgess, Idaho Winter: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle

“All the world blurred, a vibrating hemorrhage, and it was fine because I could finally feel how little impact I’d ever have on the world. Losing that dread that one day you’ll somehow ruin everything, for yourself and everyone else. The realization that I could simply leave and the world wouldn’t miss me.”
― B.R. Yeager, Negative Space