Pudsey Recommends

“When you add the ‘village mentality’ of everyone knowing everyone else (and their business), it can be very claustrophobic. What does such an environment mean for any individual who is different from the average white heterosexual person within the community?”
― Franko Figueiredo-Stow, Out On An Island

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“impossible routes only seem impossible because they're dangerous”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder

“she has an appointment in fifteen days for another set of tests. She doesn't eat for several hours before leaving the house. Then they draw her blood again. Blood, the snitch everyone hates. It keeps you alive on one condition: transparency. It creeps around the body like a shrewd domestic who has access to every room and knows everything there is to know about you. And who talks under pressure. The body is too basic, too weak; it can't be trusted. Only the mind can console us for its disloyalty; the only flag it flies is that of freedom, made of the bones of truth and the bones of lies - a cross; white against black. Blood respects nothing.”
― Eva Baltasar, Boulder