Nalini

“To you, the fairy tale’s a cheesy medium that builds physically unsound worlds that one eventually outgrows, and to me a fairy tale is city planning.”
― Dennis Cooper, I Wished

“You could be erased a little so that there was less of you, less confidence, less freedom, or your rights could be eroded, your body invaded so that it was less and less yours, you could be rubbed out altogether, and none of those possibilities seemed particularly remote. All the worst things that happened to other women because they were women could happen to you because you were a woman. Even if you weren’t killed, something in you was, your sense of freedom, equality, confidence”
― Rebecca Solnit, Recollections of My Nonexistence

“Nobody’s perfect, she liked to say. But, man, we all fall short so beautifully.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Life itself is a spectrum disorder, where each of us vibrated at some unique frequency in the continuous rainbow.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment