“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”

― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in it's focus. To find oneself trapped in any one bead, no matter what it's hue, can be deadly.”

― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.”

― Maggie Nelson, Bluets