“Sometimes, a change of scenery is all you need to experience victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Parts of me I cannot feel. Parts of me are gone.”
Source: Borne
“Life gives us grief like mounds of wet clay,
Ripe and heavy beneath our reluctant hands,
And with it we can do one of three things.
We can carry it with us whenever we go,
Stooped beneath its awful weight,
We can shove it to the back of a wardrobe,
Buried beneath an old waxed coat,
Or we can make something beautiful,
And let it live on beyond us.”
Source: Our Infinite Fates
“And instead of useless worrying, I began instead to catalog her. To stockpile every happy memory for later. Like if I had enough pictures of her, of our whole family, then I'd be able to reconstruct her if I had to. Or maybe I'd capture enough of her soul to keep her here.”
Source: Great Big Beautiful Life
“We are most vulnerable during moments of transition. Yet change presents an opportunity to reflect on and release our past. Each time we open a new chapter, sadness will find us, wearing different faces, delivered in different forms. Being present with it and creating space for it allows for its eventual release. Change is hardest to embrace when the loss of our past is palpable, and the payoffs are not yet in sight.
I call it courageous living. Others call it a leap of faith...
Courageous, creative living is the ability to act, leap, or keep moving forward, even when confidence is nowhere to be found.”
Source: The Life Brief: A Playbook for No-Regrets Living
“You will be a whisper in their hearts, a feeling they can’t quite name.”
Source: Do Not Be Afraid: A Whimsical Urban Fantasy About a Stranded Angel, a Hellhound Puppy, and a Second Chance on Earth
“Loving folks is a practice”
Source: Oathbound
“They are linked by the immensity of their losses.”
Source: The Invocations
“Но 2013-й может быть и нулевым годом: противоположностью 1979-го, временем, когда все обманутые надежды осуществятся, а упущенные возможности будут наконец реализованы. "Savage Messiah" призывает нас увидеть контуры другого мира сквозь трещины и разрывы оккупированного Лондона:
Возможно, именно здесь пространство можно высвободить и таким образом выковать коллективное сопротивление этой неолиберальной экспансии, бесконечному распространению банальности и обезличивающему эффекту глобализации. Здесь, в конченных торговых галереях, в заколоченных досками зданиях, в потерянных цитаделях консюмеризма, может крыться истина; здесь можно обнаружить новые территории и прошибить эту коллективную амнезию.”
Source: Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
“But the flag of what country, I cannot say. Some dark crescent of land, a place where suffering is essentially meaningless, where the present collapses into the past without warning, where we cannot escape the fates we fear the most, where heavy rains come and wash bodies up and out of their graves, where grief lasts forever and its force never fades.”
Source: The Red Parts