“I WANTED TO BE LOVED SO DESPERATELY THAT MY FINGERS SHOOK WITH IT I AM NOT BEAUTIFUL BUT I COULD BE”
— Emily Palermo, What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado, published in Rising Phoenix Review
“I WANTED TO BE LOVED SO DESPERATELY THAT MY FINGERS SHOOK WITH IT I AM NOT BEAUTIFUL BUT I COULD BE”
— Emily Palermo, What I Could Never Confess Without Some Bravado, published in Rising Phoenix Review
“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
“How to care for the injured body, the kind of body that can’t hold the content it is living?”
— Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
“I’m unexpectedly fragmentary. I’m little by little. My story is to live. And I’m not afraid of failure. Let failure annihilate me.”
— Clarice Lispector, from The Stream of Life
“When you see these horrible images why do / you stay with them? / Why keep watching? Why not / go away? I was amazed. / Go away where? I said.”
— Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay
