"Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.
"
— Anthony West

""Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. Because I am done with my own whorish heat and I have been for a long time. You talk about taking a stand but there is no stand to take. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so don't ask for sorrow now. There is none. Maybe you'll be good at this. I doubt it, but who knows. The one thing I can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself. I know because I would have never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and sheild it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.""
— Cormac McCarthy (The Road)

"When you are born the world rejoices while you cry, but, live life in such a way that when you will die the world will cry while you will rejoice"
— An old Sanskrit saying

"Father son oily ghost amen."
— Ginnetta Correli

"rush of pine scent (once upon a time),

the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this."
— Paul Celan (Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan)