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"It doesn't, apparently, need to be this way, but, honestly, who cares about that when you can text that person who makes you feel like your bones are on fire and made of ice, both at the same time?"

"[F]or those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, hope works differently. Hope is then something to bite on, to put between the teeth. Don't forget this."

"[T]he human project is totally incoherent. [...] People could choose to behave otherwise, yet they never do. It astounds me. People never stop to consider their own beliefs."

"[Seven Brides for Seven Brothers]' other cherished notion is that it is OK to do violent, criminal things if one does them as part of a group. OK to abduct people, OK to organize a lynching party, OK to "settle" the West, OK to marry the nominally willing, OK to produce families of seven or more children, OK to do it because a mob does it, OK to do it because a nation does so."

"I must take advantage of this narrow opening in my heart."

"I want to remember. Yet, what I want to know even more, what I retain an insatiable hunger for, is knowledge of my relations' lack of desire for memory. It is not history that they have thrown away, for they do not have that power, but rather key parts of their own intimate experience."

"From the Latin imago, image may indicate a three-dimensional representation, such as sculpture; above all, it has to do with imitation [...] Images are not exclusively ocular. Much as memory is not exclusively ocular."

"The past is a paradox: although we have dwelled in it when it used to be the present, now it can no longer admit our bodies. [...] Memory images, a strange sort of naturally occurring psychic media, are generated by the inexorable movement of the arrow of time, as what was once the inhabited present becomes the permanently foreclosed past."

"Something loose and heavy wobbled in the air. It made an abstract noise, as if it desired to fall into place."

"On the one hand, the poet shows advanced control of the literary language. On the other, What the fuck?"

"Please bear with me. Stay with me through this part-the part where I am an extremely confused person:"

"Don't fall into that trap, I'll think. Don't become old and stiff and cruel and forget that you are living. Remain vulnerable, I'll tell myself."

"I wanted what anyone / with an ear wants-- / to be touched and / touched by a presence / that has no hands."

"We see / A sea so cross it. We see a moon / So land there. We love land so / Long as we can take it."

"My darling, the wind falls in like stones / from the whitehearted water and when we touch / we enter touch entirely. No one's alone. / Men kill for this, or for as much."

"I have understood nothing about the world in which I live. I have criss-crossed it in every direction but I haven't discovered its boundaries. [...] is this what you have to offer us? Leave us alone, we're better off dead than desperate."

"The birthday footage was recorded over that of my grandfather, and when I think of it now I still want to scream." Still crying