Anna C

“Listen, I have been educated.
I have learned about Western
Civilization. Do you know
What the message of Western
Civilization is? I am alone.”
― Eileen Myles

“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“The time-deniers say: forty's nothing, at fifty you're in your prime, sixty's the new forty, and so on. I know this much: that there is objective time, but also subjective time, the kind you wear on the inside of your wrist, next to where the pulse lies. And this personal time, which is the true time, is measured in your relationship to memory.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism”
― Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems, 1947-1980