Nipuni

“The fact that men use emotional withholding as a weapon of psychological terrorism is never discussed.”
― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“life isn’t a joke because in the middle of the day you die. A human being’s most pressing need was to become a human being.”
― Clarice Lispector, An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

“You know that to love is both to swim and to drown. You know to love is to be a whole, partial, a joint, a fracture, a heart, a bone. It is to bleed and heal. It is to be in the world, honest. It is to place someone next to your beating heart, in the absolute darkness of your inner, and trust they will hold you close. To love is to trust, to trust is to have faith. How else are you meant to love? You knew what you were getting into, but taking the Underground, returning home with no certainty of when you will see her next, it is terrifying.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

“The last thing that's needed is to judge your own heart, but then that's the first thing you go and do. A heart rushes to judge itself. A heart should have better things to do. A heart doesn't.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour