Claudia (Encruzilhada dos Livros)

“Yes, Lord, I am thankful today again for every reminder of how I have outlived my worst imagination. I will walk slowly through the garden of all that could have killed me but didn’t.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn’t merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to becoming partly a dog.”
― James Jacobson, How to Meditate with Your Dog: An Introduction to Meditation for Dog Lovers

“It is impossible to believe that any of us ever looked like children. I understand, of course, that we were once children. The cloak of time has yet to grow so long that I have surrendered my childhood.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension