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Open Water QUOTES

Open Water QUOTES

1 " You don't talk here, but even if you did, the words would fail you, language insufficient to reflect the intense mess of being this intimate with another. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

2 " To give desire a voice is to give it a body through which to breathe and live. It is to admit and submit something which is on the outer limits of your understanding. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

3 " The trouble is, this is trouble that you welcome. You realize there is a reason clichés exist, and you would happily have your breath taken away, three seconds at a time, maybe more, by this woman. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

4 " Your few days together have been spent doing nothing really, which is something, is an intimacy in itself. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

5 " You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

6 " What you're trying to say is that it's easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

7 " Every time you remember something, the memory weakens, as you’re remembering the last recollection, rather than the memory itself. Nothing can remain in tact. Still, it does not stop you wanting, does not stop you longing. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

8 " What is better than believing you are heading towards love? "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

9 " Ask: if flexing is being able to say the most in the fewest number of words, is there a greater flex than love? "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

10 " You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you're scared of what it means to do so. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

11 " Besides, sometimes, to resolve desire, it's better to let the thing bloom. To feel this thing, to let it catch you unaware, to hold onto the ache. What is better than believing you are heading towards love? "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

12 " I know I'm a photographer, but if someone else says I'm that, it changes things because what they think about me isn't what I think about me. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

13 " You know that to love is both to swim and to drown. You know to love is to be a whole, partial, a joint, a fracture, a heart, a bone. It is to bleed and heal. It is to be in the world, honest. It is to place someone next to your beating heart, in the absolute darkness of your inner, and trust they will hold you close. To love is to trust, to trust is to have faith. How else are you meant to love? You knew what you were getting into, but taking the Underground, returning home with no certainty of when you will see her next, it is terrifying. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

14 " You wish you had the words, no, you wish you had the courage to climb up from whatever pit you have fallen into, but right now, you do not. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

15 " There’s so much more you wish to say but there aren’t the words. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

16 " It's easier to hide in your own darkness, than to emerge, naked and vulnerable, blinking in your own light. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

17 " Perhaps that is how we should frame this question forever; rather than asking what is your favourite work, let’s ask, what continues to pull you back? "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

18 " You have always wondered under what conditions unconditional love breaks, and you believe that betrayal might be one of them. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

19 " What you’re trying to say is that it’s easier for you to hide in your own darkness, than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. No better, but easier. However, the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water

20 " Meeting someone on a summer's evening is like giving a dead flame new life. "

― Caleb Azumah Nelson , Open Water