“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
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