for language's sake

words and phrases that stuck out somehow

More striking, and moving, is the alphabetically ordered, temporally disordered narration: ‘Grandma died. Grandma has been sick. Grandma is ailing still’. Death, after all, comes before life in the dictionary.

Celine Nguyen • Sheila Heti, In Conversation with Herself

path of inquiry

I gave you nothing of myself

Each was an answer to an unanswerable call.

Tamara • Erotic Decisions

consci-anxious

emotional commerce

potent/ial

line of questioning

it’s not that deep <> INTD <> interested