Nothing, like something, happens anywhere."

"For that moment when I look through the lens, 
when absolutely everything is exactly right, 
love is the only way to describe what I feel."


“In your lifetime, how many people have told you you’re going to achieve great things? That you are destined to become a history maker?”

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"So much of the city
is our bodies. Places in us
old light still slants through to.
Places that no longer exist but are full of feeling,
like phantom limbs."

"… beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments."

"For years, I managed without memory—stalled, unnumbered, abridged—
No more alive than a dismembered saint enthroned in two hundred reliquaries.
Now, it is hard not to say I remember,
                         hard, in fact, not to remember."

"Tell us something we didn’t know
before: how words mean things
we didn’t know we knew."

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

Time and memory merge into each other; they are like the two sides of a medal

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

It is in this other time, at time’s edge, that I find you again

Words, after speech, reach
Into the silence

"Once I asked a serial killer what made him
get up in the morning, and he said The people."

"The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer."

"The wind doesn’t matter. It’s not my breath."

The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."

Not one word will make
you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake
from your night toward me."

I will wait and you can follow alone
and between us the night has come and gone

When I don't know how I'm supposed to feel, you're the only person that can remind me.

When you bring light, be careful of those who cannot see, who would try to bring you dark.