Marco Esteves

“..love doesn't just show up and disappear, Not real love.”
― A.S. King, I Crawl Through It

“In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like. I hate the idea of putting these preformed gestures on the tip of my tongue or through my lips or through the inside of my mouth, forming sounds to approximate something that’s like a cyclone, or something that’s like a flood, or something that’s like a weather system that’s out of control, that’s dangerous, that’s alarming. I hate language in this moment because it seems like so much bullshit. It just seems like sounds that have been uttered back and forth now over centuries. And it always boils down to the same meaning within those sounds, unless you’re more intense in uttering them, or you precede them or accompany them with certain forms of violence.”
― David Wojnarowicz, Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz

“Esquecer é não ter sido.”
― Mário de Sá-Carneiro, A Confissão de Lúcio

“Words exist only in theory. And then one ordinary day you run into a word that exists only in theory. And you meet it face to face. And then that word becomes someone you know. That word becomes someone you hate. And you take that word with you wherever you go. And you can't pretend it isn't there.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life