RICA

“If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life, it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has come.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“I am your maid. I know so much about you. But when it comes down to it: what is that you know about me?”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“The sister played so beautifully. Her face was tilted to one side and she followed the notes with soulful and probing eyes. Gregor advanced a little, keeping his eyes low so that they might possibly meet hers. Was he a beast if music could move him so?”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“. . .creating something gives agency where it feels like there is none. There is power in creation, too: the power to reframe and re-evaluate our lives in a vocabulary of our own.”
― Julien Baker, Loss Protocol Volume 1