Isabel

“Dreams are like dresses in a shop window; they look pretty, but sometimes don’t fit when you try them on. Some are too small, others are too big. Luckily, my mother taught me how to sew, and dreams can be adjusted to fit, just like dresses.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one'll be longer by light years.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera

“After the death of the poet Jane Kenyon, her husband Donald Hall wrote, “We did not spend our days gazing into each other’s eyes. We did that gazing when we made love or when one of us was in trouble, but most of the time our gazes met and entwined as they looked at a third thing. Third things are essential to marriages, objects or practices or habits or arts or institutions or games or human beings that provide a site of joint rapture or contentment. Each member of a couple is separate; the two come together in double attention.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“She wonders about that a lot: why people only learn to live in the moment when the moment has passed.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors