Hande

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”
― Virginia Woolf

“And every one of these events is connected. But not by luck: it's pure cause and effect.”
― Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins.

What?"

We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together."

Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.”
― Scarlett Thomas, The End of Mr. Y