Ada

“To indicate interest is already to expose oneself to humiliation. To admit the existence of a desired object is to admit that to be rejected by the desired object, to admit that the desired object's disappearance, one of the two always inevitable, even if only in death, will be painful.”
― Miranda Popkey, Topics of Conversation

“It’s the flowers I hate, fresh bunches
almost every day, tossed, fine, composted, before any hint of wilt,
like bright blooms aren’t a luxury, like they’re some kind of need.
When we argue about the flowers, the arguments I make are about
waste and about money, valid arguments both. Though in fact what
I hate about the flowers is that they are, for my mother, a source of
pleasure, that my mother believes in allowing herself pleasure, in
indulging her various material desires. What I hate about the
flowers is that they are an example of the many ways in which my
mother extends her kindness also to herself.”
― Miranda Popkey

“Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.”
― Amy Sherman-Palladino

“Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980