Nuri

“I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.”
― Anne Carson, Antigonick

“Some of us fall through the unseen cracks in the world of health on a bright summer’s day through a run-in with machine or microbe, like Alice down the rabbit hole. Some of us were born this way. And some find out that our genes have hidden within them a ticking time bomb. Waiting. Silently.
However we got here, we are now inhabitants of the state of sickness. Our papers for the world of health have been rescinded without notice. Our body-world has been colonised by patriarchs, and we, the natives, should know our place: small folded patient, compliant, silent, not defiant.
They seem to believe that our bodies are just an errant version of theirs. That our souls are not woman-shaped on the inside. That it’s not our place to take our space and insist on our inner difference.
Their gospel is scribbled down on prescription pads in spider scrawl. They are not to be questioned, especially not with our own heresy.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing

“I hope in the next world I shall be at ease, but in this I find I must not expect it long together.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone’s love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.”
― John Welwood, Perfect Love: Imperfect Relationships