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Maggie Nelson · 2009
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What this book knows
Blue is the color of desire, grief, and longing — and obsession with it is a way of living inside all three at once.
desire
You might want to rouge your nipples with it… But still you wouldn't be accessing the blue of it. Not exactly.
BM-RC-003What kind of madness is it anyway, to be in love with something constitutionally incapable of loving you back?
NEL-BLU-RC-007embodiment
I liked to watch the navy blue snake dance against the white of his wrist when the rest of his hand had disappeared inside me.
BM-RC-036No matter what happens to our bodies in our lifetimes… they remain ours; us, theirs.
BM-RC-019grief
We sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.
BM-RC-016I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.
BM-RC-013Illuminates
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