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Natalie Díaz, from “American Arithmetic”, Postcolonial Love Poem (2020)

“I miss you more than I remember you.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”

— Juliette Lewis

{Words by Charles Bukowski/ Mary Oliver from invitation}

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

— Unknown

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

— Sylvia Plath

- I Guess the Old You is a Ghost (#589: June 25, 2014)

“There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.”

— Unknown

Sue zhao/Ryan O'Connell

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