Love Quote by Durga Chew-Bose

“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

“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

“The best ideas outrun me. That’s why I write.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

“Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“The genius of the word is that it’s more of an expression than a word.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

“Nook people are those of us who need solitude, but also the sound of someone puttering in the next room.”

— Durga Chew-Bose