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“It is what we do in order to care for things,
make them
ourselves, our elders, our beloveds, our
unborn.
But perhaps that is a lazy kind of love. Why
can't I just love the flower for being a
flower?
How many flowers have I yanked to puppet
as if it was easy for the world to make
flowers?”
― Ada Limon, The Hurting Kind: Poems

“If you know you’re good, an opponent is a temporary roadblock, something to be taken apart and moved out of your way.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Labourdin concoctait des phrases avec des syllabes, rarement avec des idées.”
― Pierre Lemaitre, Au revoir là-haut

“To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch.
Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to touch. It moves lungs and throat and tongue and lips, it vibrates the air as it wings its way to the listener. The tongue grows dry, saliva spatters, the lips crack. When she found that physical process too much to bear, she became paradoxically more verbose.”
― Han Kang, Greek Lessons