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“But now there is a loneliness so deep it sends me foetal”
― Kae Tempest, Hold Your Own

“I'm alone. There's a poem in that, but I don't want to write it. I don't want to be someone who spends Saturday night alone at home, writing poems about being alone.”
― Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight

“My education and that of my Black associates were quite different from the education of our white schoolmates. In the classroom we all learned past participles, but in the streets and in our homes the Blacks learned to drop s’s from plurals and suffixes from past-tense verbs. We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial. We learned to slide out of one language and into another without being conscious of the effort. At school, in a given situation, we might respond with “That’s not unusual.” But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, “It be’s like that sometimes.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“She spun the car through a right turn that would have killed us all had we been minor characters.”
― Daniel Handler, The Basic Eight