Sublime

In fact, it’s Douggie’s growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

The visible is only a placeholder for real desire.

inures

benevolence.

Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”

All day and all night long, her only people are the trees, and her only means of speaking for them are words, those organs of saprophytic latecomers that live off the energy green things make.

precocious.