But You, In This Wilderness Alone You've Got To Live To Take The Next Bite

I could feel his teeth, the inside of his mouth, the shape of his thighs, the texture of his skin. I reflected that there was very little difference between this reconstruction and a hallucination, between memory and madness.

Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

It is all an illusion (which is nothing against it, for illusions are the most valuable and nessecary of all things, and she who can create one is among the world’s greatest benefactors),

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Raptures could be little or large, could come one after the other in a torrent, or singly and separated by long dullness. For him life was a constant drama of seeing and blindness, but, when seeing, the world would suddenly seem to him laden.

Niall Williams, History of the Rain

in 2005, bon iver locked himself in a log cabin in wisconsin for a now-legendary vibe check

he does not understand the reason for the moon

Garous Abdolmalekian, Long Poem of Loneliness tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Make much of me why don't you.

Matthea Harvery, Not So Much Miniature As Far Away

I want to learn to navigate by stars that have nothing to do with me

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

as if you could not enjoy love without pain.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

Tomorrow either I will murder you or you will rinse the knife in water

Garous Abdolmalekian, Flashback tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey