Debby Rassel

“I ain’t need no proof of puberty at fucking six o'clock on a Wednesday morning.”
― Lawrence Hill, The Illegal

“for she is my love, and other women are but big bodies of flame. who in the world would have thot of her like that? when most people looked they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. but he saw past the mouth and the eyes. the archetecture of the body, her fleshy masquerade. other boys were happy enuf to enjoy the show, they just wanted to be entertained by the bodys shadow theater but he had to come backstage. he went down into the mines. into the dark, brot up the gold. your new self, a better self. but wat good was it if he was jus gonna leave her behind. his poets lady, his silver lilly. he was a boy who knew things, things that looked one way but proved to be another.”
― Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

“Creativity became a part of daily life; not a job, not a contest, just something we all did, like breathing.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill