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Kaveh Akbar

  • anahas quoted10 months ago
    am not a slow learner I am a quick forgetter
  • anahas quoted10 months ago
    It’s serious business, this living.

    As long as the earth continues

    its stony breathing, I will breathe.
  • anahas quoted4 months ago
    Sometimes, life was just what happened. What accumulated.
  • anahas quotedlast month
    Some solace in history, perhaps, knowing other civilizations had also destroyed themselves. In fact, the record seemed to suggest such destruction was inevitable, the endpoint of every people.
  • Neveah Rousseauhas quotedlast year
    In sobriety, he endured long periods of writer’s block, or more accurately, writer’s ambivalence. Writer’s antipathy.
  • Neveah Rousseauhas quotedlast year
    “Right, palliative, yeah. All that stuff is palliative. It stills the suffering, but it doesn’t send it away.”
  • Neveah Rousseauhas quotedlast year
    “You know, Mrs. Kaufmann, it’s entirely possible, common even, to have psychological co-morbidities. It sounds like you’ve been getting help for addiction issues, which is great. But you may also have another diagnosis alongside it that’s going untreated, an anxiety disorder or major depression or something else. It could be useful for you to seek help for those as well.”
  • ♡emma♡has quoted7 months ago
    “ ‘Living the poems you’re not writing?’ ” Zee scoffed. “C’mon, you’re better than that.”

    “I’m really not,” Cyrus said, sharply, before stepping out the apartment door.
  • ♡emma♡has quoted7 months ago
    “I don’t even know what my higher power is.”

    “That didn’t stop you from getting on your knees with me a year ago and asking it to remove your suffering.”

    “Asking what?” Cyrus asked. “What were we even talking to?”

    “Who cares?” Gabe answered. “To not-your-own-massive-fucking-ego. That’s the only part that matters.”
  • ♡emma♡has quoted7 months ago
    like a tongue in a mouth between bites
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