pooja

“The artist is only visiting pain, imagining it. We praise the artist, not the apple, not the apple's shadow, which is murdered slowly. There must be some way of drawing a picture so that it doesn't become an elegy.”
― Victoria Chang, Obit

“You find your place in the world much less predictably than you'd imagine.”
― Paolo Cognetti, Le otto montagne

“All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans

“There is power in being robbed
& still choosing to dance.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry