Monica

“These people knew what whiskeys were good, what wine was the thing with this food, that food, what places to go, how to dance, how to smoke, how much stress to put on love, how to dress, when to curse, and did not indulge, for the most part, in homosexuality, but could discuss it without eagerness, distate, curiosity, without anything but ennui.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

“Why not say that you made a choice, that you knew what you were doing was wrong, and that you did it anyway? Why continue coasting on your trauma? It's not a good look at your age.”
― Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

“A great writer always, mostly, needs to do something that has nothing to do with writing, or so it seems, but that thing they are involved with is the very place in which they write; while farming, a poet is writing. Writers go to parties, great writers do something else.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–

“Not being a nice man but a great poet is perfectly fine, as long as such a person is not your husband.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–