“There’s might too in the incomplete. In feeling fractional. A failure to carry out is perhaps no failure at all, but rather a minced metric of splendor. The ongoing. The outlawed. The no-patrol. The act of making loose. Of not… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“A woman carries her inner life—lugs it around or holds it in like fumes that both poison and bless her—while nourishing another’s inner life,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s strength in observing one’s miniaturization. That you are insignificant and prone to, and God knows, dumb about a lot. Because doesn’t smallness prime… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“When those fault lines inside of us quake on account of all that is built up and unkempt between two people in love—on account… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There's a recording of Nina Simone's "Ain't Got No", where Simone, after listing all the things she doesn't have - a home, shoes, money,… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Nook people confuse emotional truth with other varieties of truth. They are a composite of the last person who complimented them and the next… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“There’s might too in the incomplete. In feeling fractional. A failure to carry out is perhaps no failure at all, but rather a minced… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Even then, when time decelerates and the relative importance of our lives, of our hurry, undergoes a sudden, essential audit; even then, our heart… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Like the hurt we cause when we've been enduring too much in silence and have started to trust our own fixed claim that everything… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“Essays that do not concern these directors’ works but are addressed to them—in spirit, tone, wash—because these directors have, over time, caused me to… — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.” — Durga Chew-Bose Copy Share Image
