Mel Shellum

“Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground.”
― Euripides

“If we are forced to talk about our lives, our sexuality, and our work only in the language and categories of a society that despises us, eventually we will be unable to speak past our own griefs. We will disappear into those categories. What I have tried to do in my own life is refuse the language and categories that would reduce me to less than my whole complicated experience.”
― Dorothy Allison, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

“I felt hot under my Mutton sleeves. "I just wish he'd have the decency to say whatever he came to say in front of his wife."
"Perhaps his wife is busy today."
"She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound.”
― Diana Forbes, Mistress Suffragette

“People were funny. They thought having a drone hanging outside the window was too invasive, but a lifelog didn’t strike the same chord. The recording feature didn’t feel invasive.”
― Hieronymus Hawkes, Effacement