Nahom Ghebredngl

That tenderness, desire fulfilled, is the heart of the story. It's what animates the layers of performance and incarnation. The elusiveness of fulfilled desire—its ephemerality, its illusoriness, its inability to finally overcome the threats of abandonment and death—is the reason that these narrators, Margery and Bob, must tell their stories. -"A

Dedication can make one passionate; passion brings excess; excess is never “pure” for it brings with it “extra baggage” and armed with this overflowing impurity, one might live well.

Focus is like surface tension. A globule of water retains its form through the stretching of tight bonds. Something snaps. A spot of light breaks the surface of the eye. Something shatters in the back of the mind, and shards pour out from the mouth.