{"text":"238. I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.239. But now you are talking as if love were a consolation. Simone Weil warned otherwise. “Love is not consolation,” she wrote. “It is light.”240. All right then, let me try to rephrase. When I was alive, I aimed to be a student not of longing but of light.","author":"Maggie Nelson","tags":["blue","bluets","color","colour","light","love","maggie-nelson","nelson","simone-weil","weil"],"id":13188,"author_id":"Maggie+Nelson"}