Melanie

“My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.”
― Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

“There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.”
― Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories

“I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.”
― Morrissey

“Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
― Alasdair Gray