Love Enough Quotes

“Though actually kids did not need liberating except from normative training. So it was an anti-colonial project of a sort to defend children from the state.”
― Dionne Brand, Love Enough

“She whispered gutturally into telephones, she checked hidden notes, she made calculations and her whole body was like a bit of reddened coal. At the time June did not expect more than that; Beatriz was clearly passing through and this explosive impermanence was precisely what June wanted at the time. Not love but the fissive encounter, the intense ideas and intense sex and the hypersense that every moment was atomic and defining. Of course one cannot live at that pitch forever, though naturally one wants to. Sydney”
― Dionne Brand, Love Enough

“How come we don’t collect beauty in the brain? Lia thinks. It doesn’t seem collectable. It’s fleeting. People can collect paintings, they can collect objects that may be beautiful, but this is not the same as collecting beauty. Collecting beauty would be remembering exactly, immersing yourself in the exact moment of an image or an act, and storing it in some synaptic folder in the brain to be called upon with the same effect as one recalls pain, for example.”
― Dionne Brand, Love Enough

“No argument in the world is ever resolved. Resolving would suggest some liquid in which arguments could be immersed, perhaps love. But it must be love enough.”
― Dionne Brand, Love Enough