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“Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“I’m not sure it is possible to articulate grief through language. You can say, I was so sad I thought my bones would collapse. I thought I would die. But language always falls short of the body when it comes to the intensity of corporeal experience. The best we can do is bring language in relationship to corporeal experience-bring words close to the body-as close as possible. Close enough to shatter them. Or close enough to knock a body out. To bring language close to the intensity of experiences like love or death or grief or pain is to push on the affect of language. Its sounds and grunts and ecstatic noises. The ritual sense of language. Or the cry.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“My sister and I, we were selfish. We wanted selves. There was no rage or love that could stop us.”
― Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“Cleaning the wound is often more painful
than the cut itself.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self