A Fortune for Your Disaster Quotes

“the poem begins not where the knife enters but where the blade twists.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“Forgive me, for I have been nurturing my well-worn grudges against beauty.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“true wealth is the ability to embrace forgetting”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“The difference between a warning and a threat is all a matter of what you've lived through”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“A person only gets to be called a widow once, and then they are simply lonely. The bluest period.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“not everything is Sisyphean. no one ever wants to imagine themselves as the boulder.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“I might undo the forest winding its way along the sides of my face so that I can more closely resemble a man worthy of waking to roses at his feet in a kill or be killed”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“Few things are more dangerous than a man / who is capable of dividing himself into several men, / each of them with a unique river of desire / on their tongue”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“Maybe all the blues requires is a person who has been touched before
and a caravan of hands busy with their own pleasures
If you can't fashion a song out of that
there is no God or devil that can make something of your soul anyway”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“You let a man see God once and he'll learn to make a country out of anything”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“That which forces us to bear our teeth is all a matter of perspective”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster

“if man is not supposed to play
God then
why did God make dying look
so beautiful.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, A Fortune for Your Disaster