There There

by Tommy Orange

nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing.

I get it way down at that place where it hurts but feels better because you feel it, something you couldn’t feel before reading it, that makes you feel less alone, and like it’s not gonna hurt as much anymore.

“We don’t have time, Nephew, time has us. It holds us in its mouth like an owl holds a field mouse. We shiver. We struggle for release, and then it pecks out our eyes and intestines for sustenance and we die the death of field mice.”

The trouble with believing is you have to believe that believing will work, you have to believe in belief.