Olga Bear

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”
― Miranda July, The First Bad Man

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“The reason the story runs so much with the little girls are the actual heroes in the warfare is because under most circumstances women are braver than men ..”
― Henry Darger

“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves