No mistake or crime is more horrible to God than those committed by power. Why? Because what is official is impersonal, and being impersonal is the greatest insult that can be paid to a person.
bell hooks from All About Love
From “Historical and developmental roots of female dependency” by Marcia Westkott
Revenge is an admission of pain; a mind that is bowed by injury is not a great mind. The man who has done the injury is either stronger than you or weaker: if he is weaker, spare him, if stronger, spare yourself.
I recognize that I love—you—by this: that you leave in me a wound that I do not want to replace. (Jacques Derrida, The Post Card)
Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Little Bristling Soul 