Lucy

“He is sitting by the pool and talking to Harold and Julia when abruptly, he feels that strange hollowing in his stomach he occasionally experiences even when he and Jude are in the same house: the sensation of missing him, and odd desire to see him. And although he would never say it to him, this is the way Jude reminds him of Hemming—that awareness that sometimes touches him, as lightly as wings, that the people he loves are more temporal, somehow, than others, that he has borrowed them, and that someday they will be reclaimed from him.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“From Camus’ notebooks … “an intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
― Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“I am in blood
Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go’er”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“A wound gives off its own light
surgeons say.
If all the lamps in the house were turned out
you could dress this wound
by what shines from it.”
― Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos