“I am pleased mostly with the changes and the way I am finally becoming.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“I wanted to be something else. Myself, but better. Wild, and not-yet, A burn, maybe as it is occurring.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“I count all the oceans, blood & not-blood, all the people I could be, the whole map, my mirror.”— Fatimah Asghar, poetryfoundation.org
“I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it’s part of growing up, yet it’s also an attempt to reinvent myself. By becoming a different me, I could free myself of everything. I seriously believed…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It’s unendurable, unendurable.”— Franz Wright, awritersalchemy.blogspot.dk