“If you leave that means you’re going to arrive. If one door closes, another one opens. It’s a continual cycle of renewal, of shedding one’s skin to come out a rawer, stronger version of yourself.”— Koty Neelis, medium.com
“I look up at the moon. I remember the night we did it together, and you made a joke that something I said caused all the craters. As if my words are powerful enough to cause cosmic indents. You say, 'You will be a Poet Laureate.' And I say, 'Do you even know what that is? Because no, no I will not.'…”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I just thought the trip was a gift. It was something beautiful we made for ourselves. No one told us to go or gave us money or even told us how to be careful.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I hate how capable I am of missing you. It’s too soon for that. Isn’t it?”— Natalia Vela, thoughtcatalog.com
“The truth is that I keep everyone at a distance, and it’s so fucking ironic because the truth is also that I look for comfort where it hurts.”— Natalia Vela, thoughtcatalog.com
“If I spoke prose you'd all find out / I don't know what I talk about.”— Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn, Lee Minoff, Erich Segal, Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D. - Nowhere Man/Lord Mayor/Max (voice), Dick Emery, imdb.com
“I want to be waried by strangers. I will bring many extra shirts. This weekend.”— Tracy Lynne Oliver, thefanzine.com
“Who wants transparency when you can have magic? Who wants prose when you can have poetry? Pull away the veil and what are you left with? An ordinary young woman of modest ability and little imagination. But wrap her up like this, anoint her with oil, and hey, presto, what do you have? A goddess.”— Peter Morgan, Duke of Windsor, Alex Jennings, imdb.com
“Memories are the way we tell stories back to ourselves to remember we’ve lived a life worth telling at all.”— Koty Neelis, medium.com
“What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories—prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. Th…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Rejoice! Our times are intolerable. Take courage, for the worst is a harbinger of the best. Only dire circumstance can precipitate the overthrow of oppressors. The old & corrupt must be laid to waste before the just can triumph. Contradiction will be heightened. The reckoning will be hastened by the…”— Jenny Holzer, macba.cat
“Still, my other tongue wants to speak. My other tongue wants to be kissed. My other tongue speaks for me. My other tongue cuts others off. My other tongue feels the entitlement that some people don’t even know they have. My other tongue knows such tenderness. Such mortality and cowardice and neglect…”— Jenny Zhang, jennybagel.com
“When does a war end? When can I say your name and have it mean only your name and not what you left behind?”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“Maybe a survivor is nothing but the last one to come home, the final monarch that lands on a branch already weighted with ghosts.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“It only takes a single night of frost to kill off an entire generation. To live, then, is a matter of time, of timing.”— Ocean Vuong, newyorker.com
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep…”— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com
“I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“Sometimes you think you’re giving a person the world but you’re not. Sometimes your world is not their world.”— Sue Zhao, blossomfully.tumblr.com