Lauren Bachman

“If there is a heaven, I suppose there we can weep over the scrapbook of our lives while we wait for the living to climb the constellations.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“We were a part of each other, flesh of each other's flesh-- which meant that we so took each other for granted that we never thought of the flesh. He had legs, and I had legs-- that wasn't all we knew but that was all we used. They brought us up the stairs and down the stairs and, always, to each other.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“It is easiest to measure the distance between where I am and where I want to be in miles, in minutes. It is unfair to measure such distance in heartbreak, in loneliness.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension