Quotes by : Maggie Nelson

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don't now. I know we're still here, who....

You pass as a guy; I, as pregnant. Our waiter cheerfully tells us about his family, expresses delight....

Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to....

It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause....

I truly don’t understand why at every Q and A, someone always asks, “Do you have a routine?” or....

To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says....

The mother of an adult child sees her work completed and undone at the same time.' If this holds true,....