never felt so good

"The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

All goes back to the earth, and so I do not desire pride of excess or power, but the contentments made by men who have had little: the fisherman’s silence receiving the river’s grace, the gardener’s musing on rows. I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men, and that has bent my mind and made me think of darkness and wish for the dumb life of roots.

— Megan Fernandes, “Do You Sell Dignity Here?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

Gregory Orr, from Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence, originally published in 2001

CORALINE (2009) dir. Henry Selick