AURE VIVES, ‘m.g.m.n.’
Inside me, something seethes. Inside me, some feral animal claws at my ribcage, trapped.
Molly McCully Brown, from Places I’ve Taken my Body: Essays
somewhere in between trying to live my life and trying to run away from it
“That’s true and it’s unfair to laugh at the lead singer in the opera who sings an aria while lying on the stage, mortally wounded. We lie on the ground and sing for years.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
My entire life can be described in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned, and that’s okay.
Rachel Wolchin
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver
