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Ada Limon quotes: Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.

Here is my sacrifice: my hummingbird landing in a stranger's palm.

Ada Limon quotes: Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.

Don't think about Laika in orbit. Don't think about cringe and catastrophe.

Ada Limon quotes: I am not obsessing.I am just sitting hereperforating this post-itwith a push-pin.

I am not obsessing.
I am just sitting here
perforating this post-it
with a push-pin.

Ada Limon quotes: No one wants to be remembered for their death, or rather, I don't. So why do I remember hers and remember hers? I

No one wants to be remembered for their death, or rather, I don't. So why do I remember hers and remember hers? I

Ada Limon quotes: Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.

Not so much living, but a hovering without sense.

Ada Limon quotes: Maybe my limbs are mademostly for decoration,like the way I feel aboutpersimmons.

Maybe my limbs are made
mostly for decoration,
like the way I feel about
persimmons.

Ada Limon quotes: I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

Ada Limon quotes: There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property. This land and I are rewilding.

There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property.

This land and I are rewilding.

Ada Limon quotes: I swear, I'll try harder not to miss as much: the tree, or how your fingers under still sleep-stunned sheets coaxed all my colors back.

I swear, I'll try harder not to miss as much: the tree, or how your fingers under still sleep-stunned sheets coaxed all my colors back.

Ada Limon quotes: My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wantsthe same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home.

My mother's psychic says, everyone essentially wants
the same thing as everyone else, a sense of belonging, a coming home.

Ada Limon quotes: Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me are us and

Here it is: the new way of living with the world inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me are us and then, and it and sky.

Ada Limon quotes: ...this life is a fistof fast wishes caught by nothingbut the fishhook of tomorrow's tug.

...this life is a fist
of fast wishes caught by nothing
but the fishhook of tomorrow's tug.

Ada Limon quotes: People have done this before, but not us.

People have done this before, but not us.

Ada Limon quotes: If we could light up the room with pain, we'd be such a glorious fire.

If we could light up the room with pain,
we'd be such a glorious fire.

Ada Limon quotes: Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,

Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,