Raquel

“my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell
and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal
tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex
-ecute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming
something a little different, in fact
myself
hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings”
― E. E. Cummings

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“The real reality is something we create every moment of every day, that realities spin off from our decisions in every second we've alive.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne