Chris

“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“The sky was a mixture of rose, green, and violet, the enchanting colors of malaria country, and it seemed far, far away.”
― Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year

“Perhaps I should have done something like that to try to keep Howard. If I had a close friend, maybe this is the sort of thing she would have advised me to do. But I don’t have anyone in my life to advise me about things such as this, and I am just not the sort of woman who would make desperate changes to my appearance in an undignified attempt to keep my husband. If that’s all it would have taken to save my marriage, what kind of man would Howard have been all along? I didn’t want to risk finding out.”
― Katherine Weber