Sam Roberts

“We kissed deeply for a long time, my heart hammering in my cunt.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

“A complex and controversial figure, Lacan held therapy sessions for ten minutes or three hours, seduced patients, freely belched and farted, all while rubbing shoulders with the most prominent intellectuals of his day.”
― Alexa Hagerty, Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

“Instead of getting drunk at the public, you’d do better to die yourself.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

“He was a Confederate sympathizer who opposed slavery, not because he thought Black people were equal, but because he worried it would make white people lazy.”
― Antonia Hylton, Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum