when ocean vuong wrote “to be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.” and when sylvia plath wrote “kiss me and you will see how important i am.” and when hélène cixous wrote “i, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs.” and when haruki murakami wrote “i was always hungry for love. just once, i wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love. just once.” and when richard siken wrote “tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. these, our bodies, possessed by light. tell me we'll never get used to it.” and when jenny slate wrote “sometimes i enact destruction just to reenact my faith that things can be built up again.” and when anne sexton wrote “as it has been said: love and a cough cannot be concealed. even a small cough. even a small love.”
