Of The Moon All That's Left Is A Stain Upon The Window.

- take it all / - it’s too little

- Agata Tuszyńska, tr. Regina Grol

He just cried on, this hopeless hard retching as if the tears were shards and each one cut as it came out.

Niall Williams, History of the Rain

An attempt to intensify the horror by containing it in symmetry.

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

I was so pleased to be seen

- Heather Christle, The Crying Book

and the moon is the mouth of a lover

Garous Abdolmalekian, Acquiescence tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

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

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Tell me what you know about the body, and I will tell you how it must turn against itself.”

— Seam: ‘Interview with a Birangona’ by Tarfia Faizullah

He lives in a small country of hope which is his heart.

Anne Carson, Kinds of Water

there is also the waiting, the kind which has survived hundreds of tides and ebbs of hours...Take them along with my body.

Marzena Broda, [Come back to me...] tr. Regina Grol

It may be that we have become more interesting to each other at the expense of trust.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June