“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Psychology forces everything we call love into the pathological or the delusional or the biologically explicable, that if that I was feeling… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I awoke from this nightmare into a freezing cold motel room: the heater had broken at some point during the night, and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Is to be in love with blue, then, to be in love with a disturbance? Or is the love itself the disturbance?… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“the romance of letting an individual experience of desire take precedence over a categorical one.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“If I were today on my deathbed, I would name my love of the color blue and making love with you as… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“95. But please don't write again to tell me how you have woken up weeping. I already know how you are in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing' (Leonardo da… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“44. [...] later that afternoon, a therapist will say to me, "If he hadn’t lied to you, he would have been a… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“53. 'We mainly suppose the experiential quality to be an intrinsic quality of the physical object'-this is the so-called systematic illusion of… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel -… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“7. But what kind of love is it, really? Don’t fool yourself and call it sublimity. Admit that you have stood in… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love’s primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature 'adding to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, as if… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart.… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“But “knowing the truth” does not come with redemption as a guarantee, nor does a feeling of redemption guarantee an end to a cycle… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Girls are cruelest to themselves,” observes Anne Carson in “The Glass Essay,” her brilliant long poem about the ravages of female anger, loneliness, grief,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“On one hand, the Aristotelian, perhaps evolutionary need to put everything into categories– predators, twilight, edible – on the other, the need to pay homage… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.” — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Psychology forces everything we call love into the pathological or the delusional or the biologically explicable, that if that I was feeling wasn't love… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I edit myself into a boldness that is neither native or foreign to me. At times I grow tired of this approach, and all… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
