“I am suffocated by my own being just as much as I am grateful for it. I love everything in this way: in such a way that I cannot bear it. I know what it is to love something so much that every moment is something both loved and lost.” LovePoetryTimeChangeLossConsciousnessBeingImpermanence Author:Belle Townsend
“I have started to spend my Fridays playing tennis with a boy from my class, and he said we would only do it as long as the weather permitted. I have started looking forward to Fridays. It is getting colder everyday, this is the worst part of living in New England: how quickly the seasons change. But what a joy it is to have something, anything, just for a little while. What a privilege it is to hold something so precious, so small, so unspoken, and to wince when you have to let go. What a treat to have so much life grace these fingertips, to love so much that I now know such loss. What a curse to have it all move so quickly, to have it be out of reach so fast.” TimeChangeLossSeasonsImpermanenceTime Passing Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull
“Perhaps this is what life is - just being with each other. And perhaps this is also what death is, because the fossils of the amphibian and the mammal were found, curled up together: perhaps because of broken ribs and shared heat, or perhaps because of the universal need we have for each other. A flood buried the two together, alive, and although they sang unheard pleas, they were singing together.” InspirationalLossFloodExtinctionTogethernessUniversal Love Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull
“To live was to recover, and to recover was to survive. To survive was exhausting, but it was surviving, still. And what else is there?” PoetryLossSurvivalCoronavirusPandemicWillExtinction Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull
“To survive is to face the truth that man made this extinction. Survival and grief are too often felt together. How do we live in a world without the millions who died in the pandemic? How do we live in the same world with those responsible for the loss of so many of us?” DeathPoetryLossCapitalismAccountabilityPandemicExtinctionCovidCapitalism Quotes Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull
“We forget we are making history whether or not we think we are worthy of being remembered. We are here. History books are always being written. The flood is here, and there are countless lifeless bodies in the current. The flood does not give a shit. It just floods. Every day there is a new strain, a new disaster, or a new reason to stop fighting. Still, we are here. Fighting to survive is not new. But, let us not forget that evolution has always been a function of extinction. Life must go on, somehow. Overwhelming loss suffocates us just as much as the pollution. But, every time there is another reason to not fight, we must remember: Those of us who fight the hardest, who evolve despite, are those of us who shape the backbones of those who are to follow us.” FightingLossHistorySurvivalCoronavirusPandemicCovidSurvival Quotes Book:Push and Pull Source: Push and Pull