Angelo

“because to examine this condition too closely—to quantify it or deal with it empirically when I have little control over it—would make it too real.)”
― Jeff Vandermeer, Annihilation

“Then why did she mind what he said? Women can’t write, women can’t paint—what did that matter coming from him, since clearly it was not true to him but for some reason helpful to him,”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“He may well build other nests, which he will display to any female who enters his territory. If she likes any of his pads she will move in, decorate, and bear his children. A slapper seeking a Premier League husband could not be more shallow. Mind you, he is no moral giant. As soon as he has ensconced one female, he will try to tempt another Jenny Wren into one of his spare nests, where she too will give birth to his progeny. The little cock then travels between his families, a bigamous commercial traveller in a 1930s thriller.”
― John Lewis-Stempel, Meadowland: the private life of an English field

“People aren’t studying the natural world any more, they’re mining it.”
― Michael Crichton, The Lost World