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“To find one person inexhaustible is simply the definition of love,”
— Iris Murdoch, from “Under The Net,” published c. September 1954
“To find one person inexhaustible is simply the definition of love,”
— Iris Murdoch, from “Under The Net,” published c. September 1954
forgive yourself. whether you fail a test, eat too many cookies, say the wrong thing, fail a class, or spend a whole day in bed — learn to forgive yourself. the next day will be better. the next day will be a day closer to your next success. you can do it.
“In the margins of newspapers, I wrote the color of her eyes, her favorite flower, the shape of the birthmark on her hip. In the Bible, over passages of begetting, I wrote the taste of her lips, her name, over and over, two syllables light as glass, and how often I called her by the first syllable, a sigh across her skin.”
— Alvin Park, from “Whale Fall,” SmokeLong Quarterly (no. 60, June 2018)
