Toussaint Egan

“Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.”
― Elmore Leonard, Valdez Is Coming

“What will undo any boundary is the awareness that it is our vision, and not what we are viewing, that is limited.”
― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility

“You know I love you. You're the only one."

"She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
― Toni Morrison