"There is no such thing as your own life. Your wish to end your own life shall (not) be granted."

"To grope toward a bridge that spans the yawning chasm between savagery and dignity."

Creature-shaped water

So like Ruby said to me love is attention and attention is time

I've brought you a bone to beat me with

To train animals to become vegetarians

A drizzle wets your clothes

The host dies for its parasites

The scorched rice at the bottom of the pot was mother's favorite, a golden remnant of life after the war.

Nervous fiddling of night insects

Systems of quiet love

The sibilant travel far

How Sugar Mountain salted the shit out of High Stick in St. Francis.

Everyday gets louder in the month of July.

b.d.

You are wrong in saying that I am right

Für alle alten deutschen Paare

"The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment."

Fear of extinction as nostalgia

You are black and I am yellow, but for you i will turn red and blue.

Wealth of secrets

To age and become older than your father who died in his teens.

켘

From where I lay the clear glass looked milky, and, watching a starry night octopus tiptoe on seabed i could almost taste the bad takoyaki I once had in Seoul. 

That great place where you have nothing to lose

i saw a child who looked like this today

"For centuries after antiquity, friendship was a very important kind of social relation: a social relation within which people had a certain freedom, certain kind of choice (limited of course), as well as very intense emotional relations. There were also economic and social implications to these relationships -- they were obliged to help their friends, and so on. I think that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, we see these kinds of friendships disappearing, at least in the male society. And friendship begins to become something other than that. You can find, from the sixteenth century on, texts that explicitly criticize friendships as something dangerous.

  The army, bureaucracy, administrations, universities, schools, and so on -- in the modern senses of these words -- cannot function with such intense friendships. I think there can be seen a very strong attempt in all these institutions to diminish or minimize the affectional relations. I think this is particularly important in schools."

Father would do anything to protect spouse and offspring. Mother would do anything to protect offspring.