Harold Gibbons

“People said you could get lost in California, never come back to reality; people warned about lotus-eating. Paul thought maybe he didn't mind so much. He could stay here forever, and time would stop, and he wouldn't have to choose anything.”
― Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

“You are enough. You didn't deserve to be abandoned. You need to relearn that you are worthy of love.”
― DERYA KAYA, RECURRİNG RELATİONSHİPS: BREAKİNG FREE FROM EMOTİONAL REPETİTİON

“The term 'sexist' characterizes cultural and economic structures with create and enforce the elaborate and rigid patterns of sex-marking and sex-announcing which divide the species, along lines of sex, into dominators and subordinates. Individual acts and practices are sexist which reinforce and support those structures, either as culture or as shapes taken on by the enculturated animals. Resistance to sexism is that which undermines those structures by social and political action and by projects of reconstruction and revision of ourselves.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

“As Joshua Jelly-Schapiro said one day, every map is a story, and by implication every story contains a map. I loved maps for a long time, but it wasn’t until I made them and put them out in the world that I discovered how not alone I was. People love maps. There is a special incandescent joy to how they respond to a good map that is different from the way I’ve seen people to respond to any other art form. They light up. They get greedily engrossed. They start tracing possibilities, thinking, interpreting, measuring: maps demand work, and this kind of cerebral work can be exhilarating. By a good map I mean an aesthetic one, a map that is an invitation to the imagination, a map that offers a fresh view of the familiar or an introduction to the unfamiliar or finds the latter in the former. If every map is a story, most of them are mysteries that invite you to solve them while remaining forever unresolved, in that they indicate more - more past, more future, more adventure, more travelers. They have an openness, indicating more than they depict.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas