Nikki

“To begin with, I ran my eye up and down the page. I am going to get the hang of her sentences first, I said, before I load my memory with blue eyes and brown and the relationship that there may be between Chloe and Roger. There will be time for that when I have decided whether she has a pen in her hand or a pickaxe.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own

“Work will be your mother, she whispered; it will lead you through dark days; it will clear you a level place to rest at last.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“On the whole I am inclined to think that a witch should not kiss. Perhaps it is the not being kissed that makes her a witch; perhaps the source of her power is the breath of loneliness around her.”
― Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

“It is always possible to exchange one hell god for another.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Psyche in a Dress