Shaneka Gabrielson

“It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them”
― Lionel Shriver

“When there is no hope in the future, the present appears atrociously bitter.”
― Émile Zola, Therese Raquin

“There’s no English equivalent for silovik. It doesn’t translate succinctly because to create something as Machiavellian as a silovik requires both the KGB and the GRU, and then a shift from communism to capitalism followed by a gear-grinding reverse into despotism.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“I’d say to myself, Andrew Compton, you’ve sucked their cold mouths and cocks; you’ve licked their blood from your hands by the bucketful; you’ve boiled the flesh off their skulls, then used the same pot to make curry. Why not just fry up a few tender bits and see what it’s like—perhaps with a nice egg?”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Exquisite Corpse