“ [A]fter all, what does it mean for pain to be 'memorable'? You're either in pain or you're not. And it isn't the pain that one forgets. It's the touching death part. As the baby might say to its mothe… Maggie Nelson
“ This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid. Maggie Nelson
“ It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain. Maggie Nelson
“ Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that. Maggie Nelson
“ You’re looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations (all my favorite books in my preteen years: I Know Why the Caged Bi… Maggie Nelson
“ I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack Nicholson is lewdly embracing in the haunted hotel bathroom ages rapidly in his arms, screeching f… Maggie Nelson
“ 102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain. Maggie Nelson
“ After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain. Maggie Nelson
“ I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.Of this latter I f… Maggie Nelson
“ Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again. Maggie Nelson
