Solitaire ou Solidaire

A human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could have prisons, that could have slavery, that could have the wage, and therefore not abolition as the elimination of anything but abolition as the founding of a new society.

You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

If you don’t like somebody in two minutes, you’re done with them forever.

“‘Let’s do that,’ she said suddenly. ‘Do what?’ ‘Say something to each other in the dark.’”

and I know tender places still intrigue you.

I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.